Born in 1961, Andrea Cohen grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where she developed a love for poetry at a young age, stemming from her frequent walks with her dog through the woods where she would compose songs in her head. Currently, she teaches at Boston University and directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge,…
Michael Collier, born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953, received his undergraduate degree at Connecticut College and earned his MFA at the University of Arizona. Currently, he lives in Cornwall, Vermont, and is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of eight books of poems, including The Clasp and…
Anthony Madrid was born in 1985 in Bethesda, Maryland and currently lives in Chicago. He graduated as a PhD student from the University of Chicago (in the graduate program in English language and literature), with an MD from Columbia University, an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, and a BA from Penn State. Some publications…
Sigurd Glad first interviewed A.E. Stallings back in 2017, asking her five questions that were inspired by her poem “The Barnacle.” Having recently read selections from This Afterlife, Ms. Stallings’s 2022 collection of poems, I was happy to have the chance to circle back and reconnect with one of this site’s favorite poets. A. E.…
Destiny O. Birdsong is an African American poet born in 1981 in Louisiana and currently lives in Nashville. She attended Fisk University, where she received her BA in English and history, and Vanderbilt University, where she received her MFA in poetry and PhD in English. Over time, some hallmarks of her work have become exploring…
Elaine Equi’s latest book is The Intangibles from Coffee House Press. A new collection, Out of the Blank, is forthcoming in 2025. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Big Other, Plume, New American Writing, and many other journals. In 2023, she served as guest editor of the annual anthology Best…
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…
Danielle DeTiberus, born in Connecticut, teaches creative writing at the Charleston School of the Arts. In 2016, she received a poetry fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Arts & Letters, Missouri Review, Rattle, River Styx, The Southeast Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and elsewhere. She…