Judson Evans was chosen as an "Emerging Poet" by John Yau for The Academy of American Poets in 2007 and won the Philip Booth Poetry Prize from Salt Hill Review in 2013. His poems have appeared in Folio, Volt, Cutbank, and The Sugar House Review. Chalk Song, his collaborative book of poems inspired by paleolithic cave paintings (with poets Susan Berger-Jones & Gale Batchelder), will be published by Lily Poetry Press, Boston, in the fall of 2021.