Authors

Austin Allen was born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1984. He received an MFA in Poetry from Johns Hopkins Uni...

Al Alvarez is a poet, novelist, literary critic, anthologist, and author of many non-fiction books on topics r...

Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle (Australia) in 1962. He grew up in Melbourne. After completing a Ph.D at t...

John Lawrence Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, on July 28th 1927, the first son of Chester Frederick (...

Born in Liverpool in 1952, Neil Berry was educated at Hillfoot Hey High School and London University, where he...

Danielle Blau’s Rhyme or Reason: Poets, Philosophers, and the Problem of Being Here Now is forthcoming from W....

Audrey Bohanan was born in 1948 in central-southern New Hampshire, where she also spent her childhood, growing...

George Bradley is the author of six books of verse (most recently, A Stroll in the Rain: New & Selected Po...

Geoffrey Brock was born in Atlanta and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. He received a PhD in comparative liter...

James Campbell was born in Glasgow and educated at Edinburgh Uni-versity. Between 1978 and 1982, he was the ed...

Isaac Cates is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Center at the C. W. Post campus of Lo...

Christopher Cessac was born in 1967 in Corpus Christi and grew up in South Texas. He studied literature and hi...

Robert Conquest was born in Malvern, Worcestershire, in 1917, to an American father and his English wife. Educ...

Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA, in 1970 and was educated at Winthrop University a...

James D’Agostino is the author of Nude With Anything (New Issues Press), and three chapbooks which won prizes ...

Peter Dale was born in Surrey in 1938, and educated at Strode’s School, Egham, and St Peter’s College, Oxford....

James Phillip Davis was born on a U.S. Army base in Nuremburg, Germany, in 1985 and grew up in Colorado Spring...

Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1945, and educated at the universities of Cambridge (where he r...

Erica Dawson was born in Columbia, Maryland in 1979. Majoring in the Writing Seminars, she received her BA wit...

B.H. Fairchild was born in Houston, Texas and grew up there and in small towns in west Texas, Oklahoma, and Ka...

Born in Coney Island, New York in 1928 and educated at the College of the City of New York and Columbia Univer...

David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1924, and grew up and attended school in Maplewood, New Jersey....

Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1962, and attended schools in Lagos, Chicago, Colombo, and London. He ...

Nicholas Garland was born in London in 1935. He moved with his family to New Zealand in 1947 and lived there u...

Daniel Groves was born and raised in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and educated at Johns Hopkins University.  A ...

Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, in August 1929, the elder son of Herbert and Ann Charlotte Gunn (n&eacu...

Rachel Hadas was born in 1948 and spent her childhood in New York City. She studied classics at Harvard, poetr...

Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928, the only child of Donald Andrew Hall (a businessman) ...

Michael Hamburger was born on 22nd March, 1924, in Berlin. The family emigrated to England in 1933 and settled...

(Robert)Ian Hamilton was born on March 24th 1938, the second son of Robert Tough and Daisy (McKay) Hamilton, w...

Born in 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jeffrey Harrison is the author of three books of poetry, The Singing Underne...

Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and took degrees at Yale and ...

Cynthia L. Haven was born in Detroit and educated at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor , where she studied ...

Seamus Heaney was born on April 13th, 1939, the first child of Patrick and Margaret Kathleen Heaney (né...

Gregory Heath was born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, in 1967, and has an MA in Narrative Writing. He has taught Wr...

Anthony Hecht was the author of seven books of poetry, among them The Hard Hours,which received the Pulitzer P...

Jaimee Hills was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1979, and was educated at the Johns Hopkins University and...

Katherine Hollander is a poet and historian. Born in Boston, she was educated at Marlboro College and Boston U...

Philip Hoy was born in London in 1952, and educated at the Universities of York and Leeds. He has a Ph.D in Ph...

Michael Hulse was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1955, and educated locally (1966-1971) and at the U...

Jacobson was born in Johannesburg in 1929 and grew up in Kimberley. He was educated at the Kimberley Boys̵...

Hilary S. Jacqmin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979 and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She earned he...

Carrie Jerrell was born in Petersburg, Indiana, USA in 1976. She received her MA from the Writing Seminars at ...

Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, on August 12th 1925, the only child of Vasco and Mary Ethel Justice...

Stephen Kampa was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1981 and grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida. He received a BA i...

Rose Kelleher was born in 1964, grew up in Massachusetts and earned her B.A. in English at UMass Boston. She h...

Kraushaar was born in Washington DC and grew up outside Boston in Concord, Massachusetts. He attended Marlboro...

Matthew Ladd was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Texas Panhandle. After completing his undergraduate wor...

William L. MacDonald was born in 1921, and taught at Wheaton College and Yale University before joining Smith ...

Dora Malech was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1981 and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She earned a BA in F...

Born in the Netherlands, Jérôme Luc Martin grew up in Los Angeles and in the south of France. He ...

J.D. McClatchy is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, and of three collections of prose. He ha...

Eric McHenry is a seventh-generation Kansan and a fifth-generation graduate of Topeka High School. A past poet...

Karl Miller was born near Edinburgh in 1931, and educated at the Royal School of Edinburgh and Downing College...

Eugenio Montale (Genoa 1896–Milan 1981) is widely considered the most important Italian poet of the twentieth ...

Timothy Murphy (b.1951) graduated from Yale in 1972 as Scholar of the House in Poetry. His tutor was Robert Pe...

Ian Parks was born in 1959 in Mexborough, South Yorkshire and was educated at Sheffield University and Ruskin ...

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s second poetry collection, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was published in 20...

The stories that make up this fine debut collection are thematically linked by characters who, from blind date...

Hannah Louise Poston, whose Julia Hungry was awarded the eighteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize by the j...

Chris Preddle has retired to a windy shoulder of the Pennines in West Yorkshire. Born in London in 1943, he wa...

Shelley Puhak was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Maryland. She holds an MFA from the University of Ne...

Christopher Ricks was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 2004. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren P...

Daniel Rifenburgh was born in Elmira, New York on May 24, 1949. He attended the University of Louisville and s...

John Rosenthal was born in New York City in 1942. He received his B.A. from Wake Forest College in 1964, and a...

K. M. Ross was born in 1959 in Auckland, New Zealand, and grew up on the North Shore. He attended Rangitoto Co...

Gabriel Roth was born and raised in London. He now lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York, and has worked...

Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit and Baltimore. She was educated at H...

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Alan Shapiro was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1952. ...

Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on May 9th 1938, the first son of George and Helen (Matijevic)...

W.D. Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1926, and was educated at Geneva College. His studies...

Timothy Steele was born in 1948 in Burlington, Vermont. He was educated at the local public, or state, schools...

Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, and was raised and educated in the ...

Bradford Gray Telford has published work in many journals including the Yale Review, Ninth Letter, Southwest R...

The granddaughter of a Harlan County coal miner, Julia Thacker was raised in Dayton Ohio. She first came to Ma...

Matthew Thorburn is the author of two previous books of poems, Subject to Change and Every Possible Blue, and ...

Anthony Thwaite was born in 1930. He spent most of his childhood in Yorkshire until he was evacuated to relati...

Cody Walker was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.F....

Henry Walters was born in Chicago in 1984 and grew up in Clinton, Michigan. After studying Classics at Harvard...

Deborah Warren was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1946 and educated at Harvard University, from where she g...

Clive Watkins is a poet, translator and critic. He was born in Sheffield, U.K., in 1945. His verse has appeare...

Mike White grew up in Montreal, Canada. He received a master’s degree from McGill University and a doctorate f...

Richard Wilbur was born in New York City in 1921 and is one of the most accomplished poets of our time. Among ...

Norman Williams, who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1974, and from Yale Law School in 1979, live...

Greg Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. His first book, The Silent Partner, was published by Storylin...

Clive Wilmer was born Harrogate in 1945, grew up in London, and was educated at King’s College, Cambridg...

Richard Wollheim was born in London in 1923 and educated at Westminster School and Balliol College, Oxford. He...

Stephen Yenser is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, an...

Matthew Yorke was born in London in 1958. The son of Emma Tennant and grandson of Henry Green, he is the autho...