A conversation with poet and memoirist Kiki Petrosino, author most recently of the memoir Bright (2022) and White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and three other poetry books, all from Sarabande. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. She directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, where she is a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, the UNT Rilke Prize, & the Spalding Prize, among other honors. Three generations of Petrosino's family attended Hampton--her mother, her grandfather, and her great grandfather.