She published her first full-length collection, Black Swan (University of Pittsburgh Press), in 2001, for which she won the Cave Canem Prize and was a finalist for the 2003 Patterson Poetry Prize.
[1] In July 2004, she became an assistant professor at Cornell University in English Literature.
[2] In April 2009, Van Clief-Stefanon published her second poetry collection, ]Open Interval[, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Van Clief-Stefanon's work has appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and Shenandoah, among other places.
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