A debut poetry collection with themes including race, addiction and womanhood has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize . American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney took home the £20,000 prize – awarded to writers aged 39 or under in honour of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age – for her debut collection Joy Is My Middle Name. She was announced as the winner at a ceremony in Swansea, Thomas’s birthplace. The collection, chosen in a unanimous decision by judges, is “an exuberant, blistering collection full of life, humour and ideas. Debevec-McKenney is a ferociously gifted talent,” said Irenosen Okojie, chair of judges. “The book is remarkable in the way it galvanises the reader with a sense of intimacy that is authentic and a voice that feels like an antidote to our tricky times.” Sasha Debevec-McKenney was born in Connecticut, and now lives in Georgia, where she is a creative writing fellow at Emory University.…