Authors & Poets

Poet, translator, and editor A. Poulin, Jr. (1938–1996) was the founding publisher and president of BOA Editions, Ltd. His distinguished poetry translations include Rainier Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus and The Complete French Poems as well as Anne Hébert's Selected Poems and Day Has No Equal But Night. Poulin's own...

Aaron Zaritzky was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from the Creative Writing Workshop at Oberlin College and completed an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona. He taught Spanish language at the high school level for two years, and then worked as a language instructor at the...

Adam Giannelli is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Virginia, where he was a Hoyns Fellow in the MFA program. His poems and translations have appeared in the New England Review, Kenyon Review, Field, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Two Lines, and elsewhere. He is the editor...

Adam McOmber is the author of My House Gathers Desires (BOA Editions, Fall 2017), The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012), and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA Editions, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, and Fairy Tale Review. He was the longtime managing and...

Adam J. Sorkin is a Professor of English at Penn State Delaware County. He has published eight previous translations of Romanian poetry including An Anthology of Romanian Women Poets, Transylvanian Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Poets from Cluj-Napoca, and the prize-winning City of Dreams and Whispers: An Anthology of Contemporary...

Adnan Haydar is head of the Arabic section in the Department of Foreign Languages and professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Arkansas, where he also directed the King Fahd Middle East Studies Program from 1993 to 1999. His books include translations of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s The...

The pen-name Adonis, which Ali Ahmad Said began to use in the early 60s, refers to the mythological figures of the Mediterranean which interested Arab poets of the Tammuzi school in that period, the dying gods we know from the archaic mythologies of Egypt, Phoenicia and Greece. Born in 1930,...

Adrie Kusserow is a cultural anthropologist who works with Sudanese refugees in trying to build schools in war-worn South Sudan. Currently an associate professor of Cultural Anthropology at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, Kusserow earned her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. She is the author of two collections...

Aimee Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize.  Parkison writes and publishes fiction and poetry.  She has an MFA from Cornell University and is an Associate Professor of English at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she...

Alan Michael Parker is the author of eight collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: The Vandals (1999), Love Song with Motor Vehicles (2003) and Elephants & Butterflies (2008). The Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, Parker also teaches at the University of Tampa Low-Residency MFA...

Aleš Šteger first collection of poems, Chessboards of Hours, was published in 1995 right after the fall of Yugoslavia. The collection sold out in three weeks heralding Šteger as one of Slovenia's most promising poets. Since then, his work has been translated into 16 languages. The Book of Things (BOA Editions 2011),...

Aleš Debeljak was the author of eight collections of poetry and twelve books of essays in Slovenian. His work has been translated into English, Japanese, German, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Italian. His latest work, Smugglers, translated by Brian Henry, was published by BOA in 2015. Deblejak was active in civil society...

Alicia Mountain’s debut collection, High Ground Coward (Iowa), was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy to win the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Thin Fire (BOAAT Press), was selected by Natalie Diaz. Dr. Mountain was a Clemens Doctoral Fellow at the University of Denver and the 2020-21 Artist in Residence at the...

Alpay Ulku's debut collection Meteorology (BOA, 1999) was selected as a "Notable Debut" by the Academy of American Poets Book Club. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and fellowships from the Helen Wurlitzer Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His work has appeared...

Amy Lee Lillard is the author of Exile in Guyville, winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize; The Past is a Grotesque Animal, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press; and Dig Me Out, from Atelier26 Books. Her fiction and nonfiction appears in Vox, LitHub, Barrelhouse, Foglifter, Epiphany, Off...

Ana Valverde Osan was born in Tangier, Morroco. In Morroco she attended French schools and received her baccalauréat. After coming to the United States, she attended Indiana University Northwest, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree, majoring in English, French, and Spanish. She went on to earn her Master’s degree and...

Anne Germanacos is the author of two short-story collections In the Time of the Girls (BOA, 2010), and Tribute (Rescue Press, 2016). Together with her husband, Nick Germanacos, she ran the Ithaka Cultural Studies Program on the islands of Kalymnos and Crete. She runs the Germanacos Foundation in San Francisco. For more...

Anne Hébert was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry. Her work has been translated into seven languages and her novels are recognized as masterpieces of contemporary French fiction. She worked for Radio Canada and...

Anthony Piccione was the author of four collections of poetry from BOA: The Guests at the Gate (2002), For the Kingdom (1995), Seeing It Was So (1986), and Anchor Dragging (1978), chosen by Archibald MacLeish for BOA's A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. Piccione founded Upright Hall, a residence...

Anthony Tognazzini is a writer and teacher. His fiction collection, I Carry A Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such As These,  was published by BOA in 2007. He has received residencies from Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Ledig House International Writers's Colony, and awards from the Academy of American...

Aracelis Girmay is the author of three books of poems: the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award; and Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award...

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) was a French poet who is known for his contributions to the Symbolist movement. Born in the small town of Charleville-Mézières, Rimbaud wrote the majority of his literary works during a five-year period between late-adolescence and early adulthood, including his major collections Une Saison en Enfer (1873) and Les...

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of three short story collections, two novels, and a novella. Her most recent books are Demigods on Speedway (University of Arizona Press, 2014), and Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (BOA 2013). Stories have appeared in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fence, The...

B.K. Fischer is the author of Ceive (BOA, 2021) as well as four previous books of poetry: Radioapocrypha (Mad Creek Books, 2018), which won the 2018 The Journal/Wheeler Prize; My Lover’s Discourse (Tinderbox, 2018); St. Rage’s Vault (The Word Works, 2013), which won the Washington Prize; and Mutiny Gallery (Truman...

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2006), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA, 2010), which received...

Barry Wallenstein is the author of five collections of poetry, including Beast is a Wolf With Brown Fire (BOA 1977). His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals in the U.S. and abroad, and in recent years he has emerged on a global level, participating in fellowships, workshops, and readings...

Barton Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three different categories: poetry for The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems (BOA, 1993); fiction for My Father’s War and Other Stories (Viking Adult, 1991); and creative non-fiction for Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of...

Bertrand Mathieu  earned a PhD in English at the University of Arizona (Tucson), then went on to teach American literature in the U.S., France, Germany, China, and Saudi Arabia. He was a Fulbright Professor of American literature twice, teaching at the University of Athens, Greece and the University of Dakar,...

Bianca Tarozzi is the author of The Living Theatre, translated from the Italian by Jeanne Foster and Alan Williamson. She was born in Bologna in 1941. Her father was a political prisoner under Mussolini, and then a Senator after the war. She received a degree from Ca’Foscari in Venice, where she...

William Kilborn Knott was an American poet and visual artist whose poems were sometimes surreal with startling juxtaposed images. His collections included The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans (1968), Becos (1983), Outremer, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize (1988), The Unsubscriber (2004), and two collections published by BOA Editions: The Quicken Tree (1995) and Laugh at...

Bill Tremblay is an award-winning poet as well as novelist, editor and reviewer who work has appeared in eight full-length volumes of poetry including Crying In the Cheap Seats (University of Massachusetts Press), The Anarchist Heart (New Rivers Press), Home Front (Lynx House Press), Second Sun: New & Selected Poems (L'Epervier Press), and Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little...

Born in 1887 in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser) was educated in Naples, Italy. A prime catalyst of the modernist movement, he wrote stories, plays, novels and poems that earned him an international reputation and one of France's highest literary honors—Pirx Litteraire de la Ville de Paris. Cendrars also dabbled...

Bob Hicok's poems have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, journals, and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry. His books have been awarded the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress and named a "Notable Book of the Year" by Booklist. Hicok has worked as an automotive die designer...

Boris Dralyuk holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature from UCLA. He is the translator of Leo Tolstoy’s How Much Does a Man Need (Calypso Editions, 2010), A Slap in the Face: Four Russian Futurist Manifestos (Insert Blanc Press, 2013), and Anton Chekhov’s The Little Trilogy (Calypso Editions, 2014)....

Brian Henry is a poet, translator, and editor. He earned his MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has since written ten collections of poetry and translated Tomaž Ŝalamun’s Woods and Chalices (2008) and Aleš Ŝteger’s The Book of Things (2010), which won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award for...

Brian Wood is the author of Joytime Killbox (BOA, 2019). He has served as the Managing Editor of Reed Magazine and the Fiction Editor for POST. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University, and his work earned him a Ludwig Scholarship for Excellence in Creative Writing, as well...

Brigit Pegeen Kelly was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1951. Her first collection of poems, To The Place of Trumpets (1987), was selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Song (BOA Editions), which followed in 1995, was the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection, The Orchard (2004), was a...

Brother Anthony was born in Britain in 1942. He studied at Queen’s College, Oxford University, before joining the Community of Taizé (France) in 1969. He lived in the Philippines from 1977 to 1980, then moved to Korea, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1994. He is a professor in...

Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poetry, including All Soul Parts Returned (BOA Editions, Fall 2017) and Theophobia (BOA Editions, 2012). He is the winner of the Colorado Prize in Poetry (selected by Charles Wright) for Summer Mystagogia (1996), the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award for The Creation (1994), and the University of Georgia...

Bruce Bond is the author of a number of collections of poetry including Radiography (BOA 1997), winner of the Natalie Ornish Best Book of Poetry Award. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts. A classical and jazz guitarist, Bond...

Bruce Weigl is the author of over twenty books of poetry, translations and essays, most recently Among Elms, in Ambush (BOA, 2021), On the Shores of Welcome Home (BOA, 2019), and The Abundance of Nothing (Northwestern University Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He is the translator of Nguyễn Phan...

Camille Guthrie is the author of Diamonds (BOA, 2021) and three previous books of poetry: Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois (Subpress, 2013), In Captivity (Subpress, 2006), and The Master Thief (Subpress, 2000). Her poems have appeared in such journals as At Length, Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, The Iowa Review, The...

Born in 1966, Carsten René Nielsen is the Danish author of nine books of poetry, including his most recent translated collection, House Inspections  (BOA Editions, 2011).  His selected prose poems, The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, was published in English by New Issues Poetry and Prose in 2007 and...

Cecilia Woloch is the author of six collections of poetry, including two from BOA Editions: Late (2004), for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year; and Carpathia (2009), a finalist for the Milton Kessler Poetry Award. A celebrated teacher, Woloch has conducted poetry workshops for thousands of children,...

Charleen McClure writes and lives a few miles off the Chattahoochee River. A Fulbright scholar, she was a 2020 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her writing has been supported by VONA, Cave Canem, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Watering Hole, Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, New...

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a French poet, essayist, art critic, and translator whose works and translations influenced the Symbolist movement in the late 19th century. His most prominent works of poetry include Les Fleurs du mal (1857) and the posthumous collection Le Spleen du Paris (1869), which were translated into English by William Crosby and published...

Charles Rafferty is the author of 14 poetry books and chapbooks, most recently A Cluster of Noisy Planets (BOA, 2021), The Problem With Abundance (Grayson Books, 2019) Something an Atheist Might Bring Up at a Cocktail Party (Mayapple Press, 2018), and The Smoke of Horses (BOA Editions, 2017). His stories...

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. His first full-length collection of poems, What the Grass Says, was published a year after his graduation from New York University. Since then, he has published over...

Chaun Ballard is a doctoral student of poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner, and an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org. He is the author of the chapbook Flight, which received the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize...

Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His debut poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in such publications as Poetry, Gulf...

Christian Barter is the author of three books of poetry: In Someone Else’s House, winner of the 2014 Maine Literary Award; The Singers I Prefer, a Lenore Marshall Prize finalist; and Bye-Bye Land, winner of the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. His poetry appears widely in such places as...

Christine Kitano is the author of Sky Country (BOA Editions, Fall 2017) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House Press, 2011). She received her BA from the University of California, her MFA from Syracuse University, and her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. She was born and raised...

Christopher Kennedy is the author of Clues from the Animal Kingdom (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2018) Ennui Prophet (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011), Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press, 2003), and Nietzsche’s...

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of four books of poems: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA, 2021); The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), which won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other...

Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of A Tinderbox in Three Acts (2022) from BOA Editions, Fire Is Not a Country (2021) and Salvage (2017) from Northwestern University Press, and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (2016) from Thread Makes Blanket Press. A recipient of the Amy Clampitt Residency, Tupelo Quarterly...

Dan Albergotti is the author of two collections of poetry: Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), selected by Rodney James as the winner of the 2013 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition; and The Boatloads (BOA, 2008), which was selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the...

Daniel Grandbois is the author of the prose poetry/flash fiction collection Unlucky Lucky Days (BOA Editions, 2008), the art novel The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir (Green Integer, 2010), and the prose poetry collection Unlucky Lucky Tales (Texas Tech University Press, September 2012). He plays upright bass in Slim Cessna's Auto...

Daniel Yehuda Arié Oz is an Israeli-born musician and the author of four books of Hebrew poetry and micro-fiction. His collection Further Up the Path (BOA, 2019) was translated by Jessica Cohen and was originally published in Hebrew as Madua lo tiruny beh-drakhim (Keter Publishing, 2015). Translations of Oz's work have appeared in...

The winner of the 1991 Romanian Academy Prize, Romania's highest literary honor, Daniela Crăsnaru has published more than ten books of poetry including Sea-Level Zero (BOA, 1999) translated by Adam Sorkin. One of the most important contemporary poets in Romania, her work has been translated into more than 15 languages....

Writer, professor, performer, and literary critic Daniela Gioseffi was born and raised in New Jersey. Gioseffi’s first book of poetry, Eggs in the Lake, was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and for the Pitt Series of Younger Poets. It received award grants from the New York State Council...

Danielle Cadena Deulen is a writer, professor, and podcaster. Originally from the Northwest, she now lives in Atlanta where she teaches for the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University. Her previous collections include Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, winner of the Barrow Street Book Contest and Lovely Asunder,...

Danni Quintos is the author of Two Brown Dots (BOA, 2022), which won the 20th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. She is also the author of PYTHON (Argus House, 2017), an ekphrastic chapbook featuring photography by her sister, Shelli Quintos. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2015, Cream City...

Dariusz Sośnicki the author of nine collections of poetry, including The World Shared, translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk and Boris Dralyuk (BOA Editions 2014). He was co-editor of the art-zine Juz Jest Jutro (1991–1994) and co-founder and co-editor of the influential Polish literary biweekly Nowy Nurt (1994–1996). His first collection of...

David Biespiel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964 and grew up in Houston, Texas. He has degrees from Boston University and the University of Maryland. A former NCAA scholarship diver who competed in the United States National Diving Championships, he continues to coach national, international and Olympic-caliber divers. The...

David Ignatow (1914-1997) was the author of more than 25 books including Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems (BOA 1999) and At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties (BOA 1998). Ignatow’s many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts...

David Keplinger is the author of three books of poetry. His book The Prayers of Others won the 2006 Colorado Book Award. Keplinger’s translation of prose poems by Carsten René Nielsen, House Inspections, was published by BOA Editions in 2011. He is the recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize,...

David Mura is the author of three collections of poetry including Angels for the Burning (BOA, 2004). He is also a creative nonfiction writer, critic, playwright, and performance artist. A third-generation Japanese American, he has written intimately about his life as a man of color and the connections between race, sexuality,...

David Woo's first collection of poetry The Eclipses (BOA, 2005) was selected by Michael S. Harper as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Woo’s work has been widely published and anthologized in publications such as the New Yorker, Southwest Review, and The Open Boat: Poems from Asian...

Dawn Cornelio received her doctorate in French from the University of Connecticut in 2001, where her thesis was entitled Understanding Lyrical Circulation: Reading and Translating Jean-Michel Maulpoix’s Une histoire de bleu. Since 2002, she has been assistant professor of French Studies at the University of Guelph (Ontario). She has published...

Deborah Brown’s first book, Walking the Dog’s Shadow (BOA, 2009), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and a New Hampshire Literary Award. With Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, she edited Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2005). With Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas,...

Deborah Paredez is a poet, performance scholar, and cultural critic whose writing explores the workings of memory, the legacies of war, and feminist elegy. She is the author of the poetry collections Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020), This Side of Skin (Wings Press, 2002), and of the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the...

Debra Kang Dean is the author of three collections of poetry, including , Precipitates (BOA, 2003). Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribner, 1999), The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Middlebury, 2000) and Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in...

Deena Linett is the author of three collections of poetry including Rare Earths (BOA, 2001), and Woman Crossing a Field (BOA, 2006). While earning her doctorate at Rutgers University, Linett had the first of two fellowships to Yaddo, where she completed her first novel, On Common Ground, co-winner of the Associated Writing...

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was a poet and short story writer. He graduated from New York University in 1935, and in 1937 published his most famous short story, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. Schwartz received praise for his writing from some of the most prominent literary figures of the age, including T.S. Eliot,...

Deniz Perin has an MFA in Poetry from San Diego State University. Her work and translations from Turkish have appeared in various national and international literary journals, including the Atlanta Review, The New Review of Literature, Poetry International, Transcript, and Words Without Borders. In 2007, she was a recipient of...

Derrick Austin is the author of Tenderness (BOA, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and Golden Poppy Award nominee, and Trouble the Water (BOA, 2016) selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr, Poetry Prize. His debut collection was honored as a finalist for the 2017...

Devin Becker' first collection of poetry Shame | Shame (BOA, 2015) was selected by David St. John as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.  Becker is the digital initiatives and web services librarian at the University of Idaho Library, where he directs and maintains the library’s digital...

Diana Marie Delgado is the author of Tracing the Horse (BOA, 2019) and the chapbook Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust, which won the Letterpress Poetry Contest in 2015 and was published by the Center for Book Arts. Her work is rooted in her experiences growing up Mexican-American, and she is a member of the...

Diann Blakely Shoaf (June 1, 1957 – August 5, 2014) was an American poet, essayist, editor, and critic. She taught at Belmont University, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, led workshops at two Vermont College residencies, and served as senior instructor and the first poet-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville,...

Dinah Cox’s debut short fiction collection, Remarkable (BOA Editions, 2016), won the BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her stories appear widely and have won prizes from The Atlantic Monthly, The Texas Observer, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She teaches in the English Department at Oklahoma State University where she also is an editor...

Dorianne Laux is the author of five collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: Awake (1990), selected by Philip Levine as a Winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize; What We Carry (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Smoke (2000). Her most recent...

Douglas Watson’s debut collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite (BOA Editions, 2013), won the inaugural BOA Short Fiction Prize. He is also the author of a novel, A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies (Outpost19, 2014). Watson’s fiction has appeared in One Story, Fifty-two Stories, Tin House, Sou’wester, The...

Dustin Pearson is the author of three poetry collections: A Season in Hell with Rimbaud (BOA, 2022), A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019), and Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018). His poems have been featured in Bennington Review, Blackbird, Hobart, The Literary Review, The Nation, Poetry Northwest, Poem-a-Day, Saranac Review, TriQuarterly, Vinyl...

E.C. Osondu is the author of Alien Stories (BOA, 2021), which won the BOA Short Fiction Prize; Voice of America (HarperCollins, 2011); and the novel This House Is Not For Sale (HarperCollins, 2015). He is a winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Allen and Nirelle Galso...

Earl G. Ingersoll is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York, College at Brockport. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee and other collections of interviews with Margaret Atwood, Lawrence Durrell, Doris Lessing, and Rita...

Ece Temelkuran has published eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction including, Book of the Edge (BOA Editions 2010), translated from the Turkish by Deniz Perin. Her investigative journalism books broach subjects that are highly controversial in Turkey, such as Kurdish and Armenian issues, the women’s movement, and political prisoners. Temelkuran...

Edward Byrne has published five collections of poetry, including Along the Dark Shore (BOA, 1977); Tidal Air (2002) and East of Omaha (1997), both from Pecan Grove Press; Words Spoken, Words Unspoken (Chimney Hill, 1995); and the chapbook The Return to Black and White (Tidy-Up Press). His poetry has also...

Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and sacred creative. Her debut poetry collection, Eyes, Stones (Louisiana State University Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, AGNI,...

Eliot Weinberger was born in New York City, in 1949. He primarily translates Octavio Paz into English. His anthology American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (Marsilio Publishers, 1993) was a bestseller in Mexico, and his edition of Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions (Penguin Books, 1999) received the National Book...

Ellen Bass is the author of three books of poetry. Her collection Mules of Love (BOA, 2002) won the Lambda Literary Award. Among her other awards are a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Elliston Book Award for Poetry from the University of Cincinnati, Nimrod/Hardman’s Pablo Neruda...

Erez Bitton is an Israeli poet of Moroccan descent. He is the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry. His collection, You Who Cross My Path, translated from the Hebrew by Tsipi Keller, was published by BOA in 2015. His first two books poetry revolutionized Hebrew literature and established...

Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems, including Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner, Copia (BOA Editions, 2014), and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, Best...

Fadhil Al-Azzawi is one of the leading experimental writers in the Arab world. Born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq, he has published seven volumes of poetry, six novels, three books of criticism and memoir, and several translations of German literary works. Al-Azzawi participated in Iraq's avant-garde Sixties Generation, and his...

Felipe Benítez Reyes is considered one of the primary figures of Spain's literary Generation X and the contemporary Spanish movement called The Poetry of Experience, though he questions the validity of such labels. One of the most significant contributors to the Spanish Postmodern aesthetic, his work speaks, among other things,...

Fleda Brown is the author of eight collections of poetry including No Need of Sympathy published by BOA in 2013. She is also the author of a memoir, Driving With Dvorak (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), and with Sydney Lea, a book of essays, Growing Old in Poetry (Autumn House...

Francisca Aguirre began publishing later in life. Her poetry collection, Ithaca (BOA, 2004), was translated from the Spanish by Ana Osan. The original Spanish publication earned Ithaca the 1971 Leopoldo Panero Poetry award. Aguierre has garnered many awards, including the prestigious Esquio Award, and in 2011 she won the National Prize...

G.C. Waldrep’s many books of poetry include: Testament (BOA, 2015); Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA, 2011), a collaboration with John Gallaher; and Disclamor (BOA, 2007). Waldrep has received prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets, as well as the Colorado Prize, the Dorset Prize, the...

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the author of The Sleeping World (Touchstone-Simon & Schuster, 2016). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay Artists in Residency, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, and the Blue Mountain Center. Her work has appeared in New England Review, The Common, One Story, Cosmonauts Avenue, Slice,...

Gary Gach was born in 1947 in Los Angeles and received a B.A. from SFSU in 1970. Honored with an American Book Award for his anthology What Book?! Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, he is also author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (second edition), Preparing the Ground:...

Geffrey Davis is the author of three books of poems, most recently One Wild Word Away (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2024). Davis's second book, Night Angler (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019), received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and his debut, Revising the Storm (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2014),...

George Looney is the author of three previous award-winning fiction collections—a novella, Hymn of Ash, a novel, Report from a Place of Burning, and a story collection, The Worst May Be Over—as well as thirteen collections of poetry, several of which won national awards. And he has edited the forthcoming...

Gerald Costanzo is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon. He has published more than three hundred poems including the collection, Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard (BOA, 1992). Costanzo has been the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Pennsylvania Council on...

Gérard Martin (b. 1949) is a French poet and Head Librarian at the Bibliothéque-Municipale in Charleville-Méziéres, hometown of Arthur Rimbaud. His collection La Dérobée du Monde was translated by Bertrand Mathieu and published by BOA Editions in 2003.

Heather Sellers is the author of four poetry collections: Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA, 2022); The Present State of the Garden (Lynx House Press, 2021); The Boys I Borrow (New Issues Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award; and Drinking Girls and Their Dresses (Ahsahta Press, 2002). She is...

Homero Aridjis is a poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and diplomat known for his rich imagination, poetry of lyrical beauty, and ethical independence. He is the recipient of a Mexican Writers’ Center Fellowship, a French government fellowship, and two Guggenheim Fellowships. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry,...

Hugh Martin's first collection of poetry, The Stick Soldiers (BOA, 2013), was selected by Cornelius Eady as the winner of the A. Poulin, Lr. Poetry Prize. Martin spent six years in the Army National Guard and eleven months in Iraq. Martin is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and...

Idra Novey is the translator of The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriques Britto, which won a PEN Translation Fund Award. The winner of a 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Literary Review, Washington Square, and the poetry anthology Third Rail (Simon & Schuster,...

India Lena González is a poet, editor, and artist. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University (BA) and received her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing program. While at NYU she served as a writing instructor for undergraduates and received a Writers in the Public Schools fellowship enabling her to...

Ira Sadoff is the author of eight collections of poetry, including True Faith (BOA, 2012). Also the author of a novel and a book of criticism, Sadoff is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1973, he was a...

During her lifetime (1915-1981), Isabella Gardner published four distinguished books of poetry, including That Was Then: New and Selected Poems (BOA, 1980). That Was Then featured cover art and a frontispiece by noted photographer Aaron Siskind and was nominated for the American Book Award. Shortly before her death in 1981,...

Jacek Gutorow is the author of six collections of poetry. His most recent work, The Folding Star and Other Poems, translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk, was published by BOA in 2012. His  collection, Inne tempo (A Different Tempo), was nominated for the three most significant literary awards in...

Jacqueline Osherow is author of four collections of poetry including The Hoopoe's Crown (BOA, 2005). Her debut collection, Looking for Angels in New York (1988), was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series. A Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for...

James McManus's latest work, The Education of A Poker Player, was published by BOA in 2015. Considered poker's Shakespeare, he is The New York Times bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. He has written for the The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The...

Jan-Henry Gray was born in Quezon City, Philippines, and moved to California with his family when he was six years old. He lived undocumented in the U.S. for more than 32 years. He received his BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and his MFA in Poetry from...

janan alexandra is the daughter of a Lebanese mother and a Beirut-born American father. Her life has been nothing if not peripatetic, with roots scattered in Cyprus, Pakistan, Lebanon, and many corners of the U.S. Since 2015 she has taught creative writing in community-based literacy centers and schools, working with...

With a heart divided between the Midwest and the South, Janice N. Harrington weaves memory and place into questions about how we build a sense of belonging.  Harrington, a Guggenheim fellow, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Cave Canem Fellow, has published three previous books of poetry:...

Jawdat Fakhreddine was born in 1953 in a small village in southern Lebanon. A professor of Arabic literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut, he is one of the major Lebanese names in Modern Arabic Poetry, and is considered one of the second generation poets of the modernist movement in...

Jean-Michel Maulpoix is the author of more than twenty-five French collections of poetry in blank verse fragments and in prose, along with thirteen volumes of essay and criticism. His collection, A Matter of Blue, translated from the French by Dawn Cornelio was published by BOA in 2005. He is director of...

Jeanne Foster is co-editor with Phyllis Stowell of Appetite: Food as Metaphor (BOA, 2002), an anthology of women poets. Her poems have appeared in APR, Hudson Review, Triquarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, and others. Foster is Professor of Graduate Liberal Studies at Saint Mary's College of California. A former MacDowell Colony Fellow,...

Jeanne Larsen learned Chinese in the 1970s while in Taichung, Taiwan, on an Oberlin-Shansi teaching-study fellowship, studying Mandarin reading Tang poems. She is the author of three acclaimed novels set in historical China (Silk Road, Bronze Mirror, and Manchu Palaces) and has received numerous grants and awards for her writing....

Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of three books of poetry including two from BOA, Curious Conduct (2004); and Burning of the Three Fires (2010): Her first collection of poetry, Placebo Effects (W.W. Norton, 1997), was selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series. For seven years she was...

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She's the author of five other books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the Moon City...

Jennie Malboeuf is the author of jump the gun (BOA Editions, 2025), and God had a body, awarded the 2019 Blue Light Books Prize by Adrian Matejka (Indiana UP and the Indiana Review, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, The Gettysburg Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and...

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of Awayward (BOA, 2007), which was selected by Jean Valentine as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, and The Wug Test (Ecco Press, 2016), which was selected for the National Poetry Series. Using the name Jennifer Stern, she co-translated Empty Chairs (Graywolf Press, 2015), the poetry of Chinese writer Liu...

Jessica Q. Stark is the author of two full-length poetry manuscripts as well as four poetry chapbooks, including her most recent RENDER (2022). Stark’s first poetry manuscript, The Liminal Parade, was selected by Dorothea Lasky for the Double Take Grand Prize in 2016 and her full length poetry collection titled, Savage...

Jessica Treat is the author of three short story collections including Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters published by BOA in 2009. Her stories, essays, prose poems, and translations have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals; and she is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award for further work in...

Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the author of Cyborg Detective (BOA, 2019), The Book of Goodbyes (BOA, 2013), which won the Isabella Gardner Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007), which was recently reissued...

Jim Daniels’ most recent book is Birth Marks (BOA, 2013), winner of the Milt Kessler Poetry Award from Binghamton University. His other work includes the Midwest Award-winning short fiction collection, Trigger Man: More Tales from the Motor City (Michigan State University Press, 2011); and Having a Little Talk with Capital P...

Jim Simmerman (1952 - 2006) was the author of four poetry collections including American Children, published by BOA in 2005. His collection Home (Dragon Gate Inc.,1983) was selected by Raymond Carver as a Pushcart "Writer's Choice" Selection; and Moon Go Away, I Don't Love You No More (Miami University Press, 1994)...

Joan Swift was the author four collections of poetry including The Tiger Iris, published by BOA in 1999. She was the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, an Ingram Merrill writing award, a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission, and a  Pushcart Prize. Her poems have...

Joanna Howard's debut collection of stories, On the Winding Stair, was published by BOA in 2009. She is also the author of Foreign Correspondent (Counterpath, 2013), and In the Colorless Round, a chapbook with artwork by Rikki Ducornet (Noemi Press). Her stories have previously been anthologized in PP/FF: An Anthology, Writing Online, and...

Joe Baumann is the author of three collections of short fiction: Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, and Hot Lips.  His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others.  He holds a PhD in English from the University of...

Joe-Anne McLaughlin is the author of three collections of poetry including, Jam, published by BOA in 2001. , Along with conducting poetry workshops in The States and Ireland, she has taught writing courses at numerous colleges, most recently at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She also directs the summer program...

John Gallaher is the author of Brand New Spacesuit (BOA Editions, 2020), In A Landscape (BOA, 2014), and The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books, 2007), which received the Levis Poetry Prize. He is also the co-author with G.C. Waldrep of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA, 2011), which was written in collaboration almost entirely...

A. Poulin, Jr. considered John Logan "one of the superb lyrical poets of his generation." He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, including two from BOA,The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980 (1981), and John Logan: The Collected Poems (1989). Logan was also the author of fiction and literary criticism, and John...

Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, and songwriter.  His books include The Last Song of the World (2024), The Swallows of Lunetto (2022), The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (2020), The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013).  His honors include the Cider Press...

Joseph Salvatore's debut collection of short stories, To Assume a Pleasing Shape, was published by BOA in 2011. He is a regular fiction reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and is assistant professor at The New School, where he founded their literary journal, LIT. His work has appeared...

Joseph Stroud was born in Glendale, California, in 1943, and studied at the University of San Francisco, California State University at Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University. His work earned a Pushcart Prize in 2000. He was a finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award in 2005. In...

Judith Kerman is a poet, performer, and artist who has published eight books or chapbooks of poetry. Her most recent work, Galvanic Response was published by March Street Press. She has published two translations from Spanish: A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems of Dulce María Loynaz (White Pine Press,...

Justin Jannise (they/them) is the author of How to be Better by Being Worse, which won the 19th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Their writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, Copper Nickel, Houston Chronicle, New Ohio Review, New England Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest and Yale Review, among other places. They...

Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has appeared in Narrative, Best New Poets, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, and The Missouri Review, which awarded him the 2013 Editor’s Prize....

Karen Volkman is the author of Whereso (BOA Editions, 2016); Nomina (BOA Editions, 2008); Crash’s Law (Norton, 1996), a National Series Selection; and Spar (University of Iowa Press, 2002), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. A recipient of awards...

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens, Greece.  She studied foreign languages and literature at the universities of Athens, Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerland), where she graduated in 1962. She has received Ford Foundation Grants (1972 and 1975), was invited to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and...

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of Rue (BOA, 2020), the James Laughlin Award-winning The End of Pink (BOA Editions, 2016), and the Antivenom Prize-winning Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011). Her collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past (Ohio State University Press, 2017), won the Non/Fiction Prize from The Journal.  An unapologetic dilettante,...

Katy Lederer is the author of two poetry collections: Winter Sex (Wave Books, 2004); and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA, 2009); as well as the memoir, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Broadway Books, 2004), which was a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice”, and one of Esquire’s eight “Best...

Kazim Ali’s books encompass multiple genres, including the volumes of poetry; Inquisition, Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon, and, Wind Instrument. His novels include, The Secret Room: A String Quartet, and his hybrid memoirs include, Silver...

Keetje Kuipers is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions: Beautiful in the Mouth (2010), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize; The Keys to the Jail (2014); and All Its Charms (2019). Kuipers’ poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in Best American Poetry,...

Kendra DeColo is the author of three poetry collections, I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World (BOA Editions, 2021), My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016) and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize....

Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, in 1964 and immigrated to the United States when he was a teenager. He earned an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University and his PhD from Duke University. He is the author of four books of poetry...

Kim Addonizio is the author of six collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: The Philosopher’s Club (1994); Jimmy & Rita (1997); and Tell Me (2000), a finalist for the National Book Award. In 1999, she collaborated with Dorianne Laux on The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures...

Kimon Friar immigrated to the United States in 1915, becoming fascinated with the English language and poetry after reading Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn. He received his MA from the University of Michigan and went on to teach English at Adelphi University, New York University, UC Berkeley, and Ohio...

Knuts Skujenieks is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Seed in Snow (BOA Editions, 2016), translated from the Latvian by Bitite Vinklers. He was born in 1936 in Latvia, where he studied philology and history at the University of Latvia. In 1962, he was convicted of anti-Soviet activity and...

Five-time Nobel nominee, Ko Un is a South Korean author whose works have been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. His poetry collection, Flowers of A Moment: 185 brief zen poems was translated into English and published by BOA in 2006. He has published over 100 volumes of poetry, essays, fiction, drama,...

Kostas Myrsiades is a professor of Comparative Literature and English at West Chester University. He is also a prolific translator and the first American to win a Gold Medallion from the Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature, given to a scholar by the Greek government. He is the editor of...

Laura Read was born in New York City and has lived most of her life in Spokane, WA. She is the author of Dresses from the Old Country (BOA Editions, 2018), Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry), and the...

A native of Belgium, Laure-Anne Bosselaar has lived and worked throughout Europe and the United States. She is the author of three collections of poetry in English: The Hour Between Dog & Wolf (BOA, 1997); Small Gods of Grief (BOA, 2001); and A New Hunger (Copper Canyon Press, 2007). Bosselaar...

Laurie Kutchins’ latest book of poems, Slope of the Child Everlasting , was published by BOA in May 2007. Her debut poetry collection, The Night Path (BOA 1997), received the inaugural Isabella Gardner Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her poems and prose essays have been widely...

Lee Upton is the author of thirteen books, including The Tao of Humiliation (BOA 2014), winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize. Upton's short stories and poems appear widely in such places as The Best American Poetry, the New Republic, American Poetry Review, and the Atlantic. Her awards include the...

Len Roberts is the translator of two chapbooks and one previous full-length volume of Sándor Csoóri’s poetry, Before and After the Fall (BOA Editions 2004), as well as the author of eight books of his own poetry. He has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, two grants...

Li-Young Lee is the author of four collections of poetry, three from BOA Editions: Book of My Nights (2001), which won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award; The City in Which I Love You (1990), which was the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Rose (1986) which won the Delmore Schwartz...

Lola Haskins has published ten collections of poetry, including one from BOA Editions, Desire Lines: New & Selected Poems (2004). Her collection Still, the Mountain (Paper Kite Press), won the Silver Medal for Poetry in the 2010 Florida Book Awards. Her work has appeared in various journals including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of...

Louis Simpson (1923 - 2012) was the author of seventeen books of poetry, including four from BOA Editions: Armidale (1979); People Live Here, Selected Poems 1949 - 1983 (1983); The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940 - 2001 (2003), a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Griffin...

Lucille Clifton (1936 - 2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA, 2000), won the National Book Award for Poetry. In 1988 she became the only author to have two collections selected in...

Luther Hughes is the author of the debut poetry collection, A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022), and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018), recommended by the American Library Association. They are the founder of Shade Literary Arts, a literary organization for queer writers of color, and co-hosts The Poet Salon podcast....

Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’ 2021-22 Poet Laureate and is a Poet Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Press and Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award; Start With A Small Guitar; and most...

Mahtem Shiferraw is a writer and visual artist from Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her work has been published in various literary magazines, including Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, Poets.org, The 2River View, Luna Luna Magazine, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Numero Cinq, and more. Her short story “The River” received an Honorable Mention at Glimmer...

Mangalesh Dabral was the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and other genres, including This Number Does Not Exist (BOA Editions, 2016). His work has been translated and published in all major Indian languages and in Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Polish, and Bulgarian. He spent his adult life as a...

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States at age five through the mountains of Tijuana. He is a CantoMundo Fellow and is the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s Creative Writing MFA program. He cofounded Undocupoets, for which he was...

Margaret Ray grew up in Gainesville, Florida and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. A winner of the Third Coast Poetry Prize and a Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America for her chapbook Superstitions of the Mid-Atlantic, her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Gettysburg Review, Threepenny...

Mark Irwin is the author of six collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: Quick, Now, Always (1996), White City (2000), and Bright Hunger (2004) Also the author of two volumes of translation and a book of essays, his work has appeared widely in many literary magazines including The American Poetry...

Mark Polanzak is author of The OK End of Funny Town (BOA Editions, 2020), which won the BOA Short Fiction Prize, and the hybrid fiction/memoir POP! (Stillhouse, 2016). His stories have appeared in The Southern Review and The American Scholar, and anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. He is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process and...

Marosa di Giorgio (1932 - 2004) was an acclaimed Uruguayan poet and novelist. Her collection, Diadem: Selected Poems, translated from the Spanish by Adam Giannelli, was published by BOA Editions in 2012. Considered one of the most singular voices in Latin America, di Giorgio, like Walt Whitman, expanded the same...

Marsh de la O’s latest poetry collection, Antidote for Night (BOA, 2015), was awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Prize. Her first book of poetry, Black Hope (New Issues Press, 1997), won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize. Her work also appears in four anthologies, the latest of which, One for the...

Martha Ronk is a distinguished poet and fiction writer. Her collection of short stories, Glass Grapes and Other Stories was published by BOA in 2008. She is the recipient of a 2005 PEN USA Award in Poetry, a 2006 National Poetry Series Award, the Gertrude Stein Award, and a 2007...

Mary Crow is the author of five collections of poetry and four translations including three from BOA Editions: Borders (1989), I Have Tasted the Apple (1996) and Engravings Torn from Insomnia by Olga Orozco (2002) which she translated from the Spanish.  A Professor of English at Colorado State University in Fort...

Matt Donovan is the author of two previous collections of poetry – Rapture & the Big Bam (Tupelo Press 2017) and Vellum (Mariner 2007) as well as a book of lyric essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press 2016). Donovan’s work...

Matt Morton holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His poetry appears in AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread...

Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of the 2023 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from BOA Editions, Ltd. A 2023–2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Matthew has also received awards and honors from Brooklyn Poets, The Adroit Journal’s Djanikian Scholars Program, the...

Matthew Shenoda is the author of three collections of poetry including one from BOA Editions, Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (2009). His collection Somewhere Else (Coffee House Press, 2005), was the winner of a 2006 American Book Award and was named one of 2005’s debut books of the year by Poets...

Matthew Vollmer was born in Asheville, North Carolina and grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is the author of two collections of short fiction—Gateway to Paradise (Persea, 2015)...

Maya Bejerano, a leading Israeli poet, is considered by many poetry readers as a national treasure. She was born in Israel in 1949, and holds a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Bar-Ilan University, and an M.A. in Library Sciences from Hebrew University. She has published ten volumes of poetry,...

Meg Kearney is the author of two collections of poetry: Home By Now (Four Way Books, 2009), was the winner of the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award, and a finalist for the Patterson Poetry Prize; and An Unkindness of Ravens (BOA, 2001). She is also the author of...

Michael Beard teaches in the English Department at the University of North Dakota. He is the author of a book on the Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat, Hedayat’s Blind Owl and the West (1990), and has translated from Persian two volumes of short poems by Abbas Kiarostami, Walking with the Wind...

Michael Blumenthal is the author of eight collections of poetry including two from BOA Editions, Dusty Angel (1999), and And (2009). Formerly the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is also an essayist and novelist. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at the West Virginia University College of...

Michael Martone was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he learned at a very early age about Art Smith, “The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne,” and the adventures of this early aviation pioneer. Martone has written or edited over twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and short stories, including The...

Michael Teig’s first collection of poetry Big Back Yard (BOA, 2004), was awarded the inaugural A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. His most recent collection, There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick was published by BOA in 2013. Teig is the co-founder of the literary magazine...

Michael Waters is the author of numerous poetry collections, including seven from BOA Editions: Caw (2020); Celestial Joyride (2016); Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity (2006), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001); Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (1997); and Not Just Any...

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati is a Presidential Scholar of Religion at Oberlin College where he has taught courses on Islam, the Quran, and the Ethics of Forgiveness and Peacemaking. From 1987-1989, he served as Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations and was instrumental in brokering the peace agreement that ended the...

Moikom Zeqo is the author of more than 60 collections of poetry including I Don't Believe in Ghosts (2007) translated from the Albanian by Wayne Miller. Zeqo has also published novels and short stories, children's books, monographs and scholarly articles on Albanian history, archaeology and literature. His work has been translated...

Molly Reid’s debut collection of stories, The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, won the seventh annual BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared on NPR and in the journals TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, The Pinch, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Redivider, and The Normal School, among others. She has received fellowship and...

Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than thirty volumes including five collections of poetry from BOA Editions: Red Suitcase (1994), Fuel (1998), You & Yours (2005), Transfer (2011), and The Tiny Journalist (2019). She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Witter Bynner Fellow....

Natalie Kenvin is the author of Bruise Theory (BOA, 1995). She studied with Donald Hall, W. D. Snodgrass, Lucille Clifton and Charles Simic, and returned to writing in 1988 after a twenty-five-year silence. Many of her poems are set in urban neighborhoods and state hospitals, making Kenvin, like Sylvia Plath,...

Nathan Dixon received his PhD in English literature and creative writing from the University of Georgia. His first book, Radical Red, won the BOA Editions short fiction prize. His creative work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Fence, Tin House, Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, Redivider, and elsewhere. His critical/academic work has appeared in MELUS Journal, 3:AM, Transmotion, and Renaissance Papers. He...

Born in a small village in the North of Vietnam in 1973, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai grew up witnessing the war’s devastation and its aftermath. She worked as a street vendor and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. Upon her return to Vietnam, Quế Mai contributed to...

Nickole Brown’s books include: Fanny Says (BOA, 2015), a biography-in-poems about her late grandmother; Sister (Red Hen Press, 2007), a novel-in-stories; and an anthology, Air Fare (Sarabande, 2004), co-edited with Judith Taylor. For ten years, Brown was director of marketing and development at Sarabande Books, and was also the editorial...

Poet, essayist, and translator Nikola Madzirov has emerged as one of the most powerful voices of new European poetry. His work has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia. His collection Remnants of Another Age was translated from...

Nin Andrews is the author of numerous books, including two poetry collections from BOA Editions, Why God Is a Woman (2015); including Spontaneous Breasts, and Sleeping with Houdini (2007), named one of ten best poetry books of 2007 by the Monserrat Review. Her poems and stories appear widely in such places as Ploughshares, The Paris...

Novica Tadic is author of fourteen collections of poetry, and is considered the most respected living Serbian poet and linguistic “heir” to the late, great Serbian poet Vasko Popa. His collection Dark Things, was translated by Charles Simic and published by BOA in 2009. Tadic has won almost every major Serbian literary award,...

Olga Orozco (1920-1999) was one of the major 20th-century South American writers and the author of 20 books of poetry, including Engravings Torn from Insomnia, translated by Mary Crow (BOA, 2002). Her work spanned more than 50 years, received more than a dozen national, regional, and municipal prizes and has been translated into...

Writer, teacher, and translator Paulo Henriques Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. His most recent collection, The Clean Shirt of It (BOA Editions 2007), is his first full-length poetry title translated into English, and in 2011 he was featured at the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival. His third...

Peter Makuck is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including six from BOA Editions: Mandatory Evacuation (2016), Long Lens: New & Selected Poems (2010), Off Season in the Promised Land (2005), Against Distance (1997), The Sunken Lightship (1990), and Where We Live (1982). Makuck is also the founder of...

Phyllis Stowell, Ph.D. is co-chair of the Friends of the Institute at C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.  She is a professor Emerita from St. Mary's College of California, where she helped found the SMC Master of Fine Arts Program. She is a former fellow of the Camargo Foundation and...

Piotr Florczyk is a poet and translator. With Been and Gone (Marick Press, 2009), he introduced the English-speaking audience to Julian Kornhauser (1946-), one of the foremost Polish poets of the Generation of '68. He is also the translator of a collection of poems by Anna Swir (1909-84), Building the...

Rachel Mennies is the author of The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards (Texas Tech University Press, 2014), winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Her poems and essays have been published at...

Ray Gonzalez is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including six from BOA Editions: The Heat of Arrivals (1997), winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award; Cabato Sentora (2000), a Minnesota Book Award Finalist; The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (2003), winner of the 2003 Minnesota Book Award; Consideration of...

Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of three poetry collections, Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible (BOA Editions, 2024), The Logan Notebooks (Mountain West Poetry Series, 2014), winner of the Utah Book Award, and Love, an Index (McSweeney’s 2012). She’s the recipient of an Amy Lowell Scholarship for Traveling Poets,...

Reginald Gibbons is the author of An Orchard in the Street (BOA Editions, Fall 2017), 10 books of poems, the novel Sweetbitter, translations of ancient Greek and modern Spanish and Mexican poetry, and other works. His collection Creatures of a Day was a Finalist in Poetry for the National Book Award. He has won...

Renia White is the author of Casual Conversation (BOA Editions, 2022), a Blessing the Boats Selection chosen by Editor-at-Large Aracelis Girmay. Originally from PG County, Maryland, her family relocated to the southside of Atlanta the same year she turned 13. She went on to earn her BA from Howard University and...

Richard Foerster is the author of six collections of poetry, three from BOA Editions: Trillium (1998); Double Going (2002), named a notable book by the National Book Critics Circle; and The Burning of Troy (2006), winner of the Poetry Category for the 2007 Maine Literary Awards. His other numerous awards...

Richard Garcia is the author of six collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: Rancho Notorious (2001), The Persistence of Objects (2006), and The Chair (2014). Garcia is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. For twelve years...

Richard Kostelanetz is an American author, artist, and critic associated with the avant-garde movement. He has worked in an enormous range of media and compiled an impressive folio of published works and criticism, essentially too long to list, including Wordworks: Poems New & Selected (BOA, 1993). Kostelanetz holds a B.A....

Richard Wilbur is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes for Things of this World (1957), also the recipient of the National Book Award; and New & Collected Poems (1989). Also a prolific translator, Whale, published by BOA in 1982, includes selections from Beowulf and The Middle English Bestiary, as well...

Rick Bursky is the author of Let's Become a Ghost Story (BOA Editions, 2020), I’m No Longer Troubled By the Extravagance (BOA Editions, 2015); Death Obscura (Sarabande, 2010); the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize-winning The Soup of Something Missing (Bear Star Press, 2004), and the chapbook The Invention of Fiction (Hollyridge Press, 2005). He received...

Rick Lyon is the author of Bell 8 (BOA, 1994). His work has been published in The American Poetry Review, Ironwood, The Massachusetts Review, The Nation and Partisan Review. He has had residences at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Yaddo, and in 1989 he received the "Discovery"/The Nation...

Robert Bly is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, including the chapbook Holes the Crickets Have Eaten in Blankets, published by BOA in 1997.  As the editor of the magazine The Sixties (begun as The Fifties), Bly introduced many unknown European and South American poets to an American...

Robin McLean's first short story collection, Reptile House (2015), won the BOA Short Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize in 2011 and 2012. McLean’s stories have appeared widely in such places as The Nashville Review, The Malahat Review, Gargoyle, The Common, and Copper...

Russell Edson was a poet, novelist, writer and illustrator. Called the “godfather of the prose poem” Edson began publishing poetry in the 1960’s and is the author of thirteen collections, including The Rooster’s Wife (BOA, 2005). Edson received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation....

Ryan Habermeyer won the BOA Short Fiction Prize for this collection The Science of Lost Futures (May, 2018). He earned his MFA from the University of Massachusetts and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Missouri. His work has appeared most recently in Cream City Review, Carolina Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and Chattahoochee Review....

Ryan Teitman’s first collection of poetry, Litany for the City (BOA, 2012) won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and also worked as a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia before receiving an MFA and MA from Indiana University. Teitman currently...

Sam Hamill was a poet, editor, translator, and essayist. He was the author of more than thirty books including two from BOA Editions: Gratitude (1998), and Dumb Luck (2002). He was the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including ones from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation,...

Sean Thomas Dougherty has written or edited fifteen books including All You Ask for is Longing: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions 2014) and Double Kiss: Stories, Poems, Essays on the Art of Billiards (Mammoth Books 2017). His awards include a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans and an appearance in...

Sharon Bryan is the author of four collections of poetry including Sharp Stars, winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and published by BOA in 2009. Her awards include two NFA Fellowships in Poetry, and  an Artist Trust grant from the Washington State Art Council. She was a poet-in-residence at The Frost Place...

Sheila L. Carter-Jones is the author of Three Birds Deep, the winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Book Award. She is also the author of the chapbooks Blackberry Cobbler Song and Crooked Star Dream Book. Sheila is a fellow of Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and a Walter Dakin Fellow...

Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is considered one of the most Iranian poets of the twentieth century. The first U.S. publication of his work, The Oasis of Now, was translated by Mohammad Jafar Mahallati and Kazim Ali, and was published by BOA Editions in November 2013. An acclaimed painter, Sepehri published numerous volumes during his...

Stephen Dobyns is the author of The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech (BOA Editions, 2016), as well as 23 novels, 14 books of poetry, two collections of essays, and one book of short stories. Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the NEA...

Stephen Dunn is the author of eleven collections of poetry including Walking Light, published by BOA in 2001. Among his awards are the Oscar Blumenthal Award from Poetry magazine and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1996, Dunn received an Academy Award in Literature from...

Steve Kronen is the author of two collections of poetry, including Splendor, published by BOA in 2006. His first book, Empirical Evidence (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. He has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Breadloaf, the Florida Arts Council, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from...

Subhaga Crystal Bacon's first poetry collection, Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey (BOA, 2003), was awarded the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications in the United States and Canada, and she has presented essays on Elizabeth Bishop...

Sándor Csoóri, one of Hungary’s most prominent and outspoken poets, is the author of sixteen books of poetry, six books of essays, two novels, and several film scripts. His poetry spans five decades, with his first book, The Bird Takes Wing published in 1954 and his most recent, Quiet Vertigo,...

Thomas Whitbread wrote several books of published poetry, notably: Four Infinites, Whomp and Moonshiver, and The Structures Minds Erect, and had many poems published in anthologies and journals. He attended Amherst College for undergraduate school, and went on to Harvard Graduate school, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy in the subject...

Tom Hansen's first poetry collection, Falling to Earth,was selected from over 900 manuscripts by judge Molly Peacock as winner of BOA's 4th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.  Hansen has a B.A. and an M.A., both in English, from the University of Michigan. He taught writing and literature classes for...

Tony Leuzzi is the author of Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words (BOA, 2012). He is also the author of three collections of poetry, and a writer and Associate Professor of English at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. The recipient of a National Institute for Staff...

Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction and poetry translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. An anthology that she compiled...

The author of nineteen collections of poetry, W.D. Snodgrass’ first collection of poems, Hearts Needle received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Often credited with being one of the founding members of the “confessional” school of poetry, he dismissed the term and never regarded his work as such. Snodgrass published five collections...

Wayne Dodd is the author of eleven books of poetry including Is, published by BOA in 2003. Among his awards and honors are a Rockefeller Residency, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, and an Ohio Governor's Award for the Arts....

Wayne Koestenbaum is the author of six collections of poetry including Model Homes, published by BOA in 2004.  Koestenbaum writes frequently for periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and the London Review of Books.  He is also an art critic, participating in panels at the...

Wayne Miller is the author of the poetry collection Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), and a chapbook, What Night Says to the Empty Boat (Notes for a Film in Verse) (Greentower, 2005). He is also coeditor of the anthology The New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). He has received...

Wendy Mnookin is the author of four collections of poetry, including three from BOA: The Moon Makes Its Own Plea (2008), What He Took (2002) and To Get Here (1999). She has won a book award from the New England Poetry Club and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the...

William H. Crosby was born in 1914 and raised in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He served the U.S. Army in many capacities but his expertise was within the medical field. Having published over 500 articles on various aspects of medicine, Crosby turned his attention to Charles Baudelaire after reading one of...

William Heyen is the author of Crazy Horse in Stillness (1996), Pig Notes and Other Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry (1998), and Diana, Chrales, & the Queen (1998) all from BOA Editions. Heyen has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy and...

William B. Patrick is an author who works in many genres and has three books from BOA Editions: We Didn't Come Here for This, a Memoir in Poetry (1999) These Upraised Hands (1995) and Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family (1989), which won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for best...

Willie Lin was born in Beijing, China and lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Threepenny Review, among other journals. She’s the author of the chapbooks Lesser Bird of Paradise (MIEL) and Instructions for Folding (Northwestern University Press), winner of...

Willis Barnstone has more than forty books including Life Watch (BOA 2003). A Guggenheim fellow, Barnstone has four times been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and has had four Book of the Month Club selections. His books have been translated into diverse languages including French, Italian, Romanian, Arabic,...

Wyn Cooper is the author of four collections of poetry, including two from BOA Editions, Postcards from the Interior (2005), and Chaos is the New Calm (2010). Cooper is also a storyteller, songwriter, and essayist. In 1993, the poem “Fun” from his first book, The Country of Here Below (Ahsahta...

X. J. Kennedy has published six collections of verse: the earliest is Nude Descending a Staircase for which he received the Lamont Award from The Academy of American Poets; the latest, The Lords of Misrule, was awarded the Poets’ Prize in 2004. Kennedy has also authored eighteen children's books and several...

Born in Los Ángeles, California, Yaccaira Salvatierra is a poet, translator, and dedicated educator teaching for over 20 years while raising her two sons as a single parent.  She earned her BA at the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MA at San José State University, and an MFA...

Yannis Ritsos is one of Greece's most prolific, distinguished and celebrated poets whose many honors include the Alfred de Vigny Award (France, 1975) and the Lenin Prize (U.S.S.R., 1977). Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988 was translated by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades and published by BOA in 1989, and serves as...

Young-moo Kim was born in 1944 in Paju, near Seoul. After graduating from Seoul National University, he received his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook and became a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University. He, Gary Gach, and Brother Anthony collaborated in translating...

Zach Powers's debut fiction collection, Gravity Changes, won the BOA Short Fiction Prize. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Forklift, Ohio, PANK, Caketrain, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder of the literary arts nonprofit Seersucker Live, and leads the writers’ workshop at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, where...

Zeeshan Sahil (1961-2008) was a Pakistani poet and critic.Sahil was confined to a wheelchair and suffered from serious health problems his entire life leading to his premature death at the age of 47. Despite the difficulties he faced, Zeeshan Sahil`s poetry is marked by an often lighthearted sensitivity and a post-modern...