How To Be Lucky

"Page after page in this collection load the reader with lore and insights and comtimes truly trenchant emotional epiphanies. Further, I think this book maintains a strong tone and character throughout."

William Stafford, 1990 Final Judge

Jill Breckenridge has won many awards for her work, including Loft-McKnight Writing awards in both creative prose and poetry, a Bush Foundation Fellowship, and Minnesota Arts Board grants in two separate years. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and Civil Blood, her novel in poetry and prose, was published in 1986 by Milkweed Editions. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.