Rebecca Aronson is an American poet. She worked as an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University (NWMSU) located in Maryville, Missouri, [1] until 2008, when she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. [2]
Aronson is the author of Creature, Creature. [3] This was her first book of poetry, and was the winner of the 2007 Main-Traveled Roads Poetry Prize. [1] Her poems have also appeared in journals such as Quarterly West , Tin House , Cimarron Review , The Seattle Review , Puerto del Sol, The Rio Grande Review , and others. Her book was also the winner of the Main-Traveled Roads Press poetry contest . Aronson is a contributing editor to The Laurel Review. [4] She also served as co-editor of the GreenTower Press while located at NWMSU. [1] As of 2013 [update] she lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1]
Her book, Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom, won the 2016 Orison Books Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2017 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.
Harold Witter Bynner, also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, was an American poet and translator. He was known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures there.
Amy Gerstler is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Pamela Gemin is an author and editor. She is also an Associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
Patricia Smith is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist. She has published poems in literary magazines and journals including TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, and in anthologies including American Voices and The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. She is on the faculties of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Sierra Nevada University.
Norma Elia Cantú is a Chicana postmodernist writer and the Murchison Professor in the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
(Helen) Diane Glancy is an American poet, author, and playwright.
Gillian Conoley is an American poet. Conoley serves as a professor and poet-in-residence at Sonoma State University.
Luisa A. Igloria is a Filipina American poet and author of various award-winning collections, and is the most recent Poet Laureate of Virginia (2020-2022).
Heather McHugh is an American poet. She is notable for Dangers, To the Quick and Eyeshot. McHugh was awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program and Griffin Poetry Prize.
Arthur Sze is an American poet, translator, and professor. Since 1972, he has published ten collections of poetry. Sze's ninth collection Compass Rose (2014) was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Sze's tenth collection Sight Lines (2019) won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry.
Rebecca Seiferle is an American poet.
Amy Newman is translator, American poet, and professor. She is a Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University.
Sarah Holland-Batt is a contemporary Australian poet, critic, and academic.
For the American curler, see Nancy Pearson.
Valerie Martínez is an American poet, writer, educator, arts administrator, consultant, and collaborative artist. She served as the poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2008 to 2010.
Pamela Paige Porter is a Canadian novelist and poet. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has also lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington, and Montana. She emigrated to Canada with her husband Rob Porter, from the fourth generation of a Saskatchewan farm family, and resides in North Saanich, British Columbia. She has received praise for her young adult novels, especially The Crazy Man. Her poetry has won the Prism International Poetry Prize and the Vallum Magazine Poetry Prize, and has appeared in literary magazines in Canada and the United States.
Rebecca Hazelton Stafford is an American poet and editor.
Tyler Mills is an American poet, essayist, editor, and scholar. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Account, an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University and the author of Hawk Parable, winner of the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize and Tongue Lyre, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She is also an editor and teacher and lives in Brooklyn, NY.