Robert Pinsky was born on October 20th, 1940, in Long Branch, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University and then attended Stanford University to receive his PhD, graduating in 1966. He is currently a professor at Boston University, teaching English and Creative Writing in the graduate writing program. Pinsky has written numerous books, including At…
Francisco Márquez, born in 1983 in Miami, Florida, and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela, holds an MFA from New York University and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry (2021), The Yale Review, and Narrative and has earned him fellowships from the Fine Arts…
Mary Jo Bang was born in Waynesville, Missouri, in 1946. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in sociology. She later earned another Bachelor’s degree in photography at the University of Westminster and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Columbia University. Putting her college degrees to use, Mary…
Diane Thiel was born in 1967 in Florida. She received her undergraduate degree and graduate degrees from Brown University. Currently a Regents’ Professor at the University of New Mexico and Associate Chair of the Department of English, Thiel has been teaching English and creative writing for over twenty-five years in a wide variety of settings…
Jessica Greenbaum was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel, Inventing Difficulty, was acknowledged in the Silverfish Review in 1998, her second novel, The Two Yvonnes, won the Gerald Cable Prize, and her third novel, Spilled and Gone, was named the ‘Best Book in Poetry,” by Library Journal in the University of Pittsburgh Press (2019). Additionally, Greenbaum co-edited,…
Alex Dimitrov was born in Bulgaria on November 30th, 1984, and currently lives in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan for his Bachelor’s degree, Sarah Lawrence College for a Master of Fine Arts, and Columbia University in the City of New York to get his Professional Certificate in Publishing. He has lectured…
Matthew Dickman was born on August 20, 1975, in Portland, Oregon. He attended Portland Community College and graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001. Matthew and his twin brother, Michael, also a poet, studied creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. They both went on to have brief stints…