Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, and grew up in southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (2008), winner of the James …
Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. She has written two chapbooks, Teaching My Mother How …
Charles Simic
In his prolific career, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic published seven books of essays, a memoir, numerous translations, and over twenty collections of poetry. Born in …
Anne Simpson
In addition to winning the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, Anne Simpson‘s second collection of poetry, Loop, was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award in 2003. Her first …
Louis Simpson
Louis Simpson is the author of 17 books of original poetry. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, and the Academy of American Poets 1998 Harold Morton …
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is the author of four collections of poetry, including Wade in the Water and Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. …
Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honours from Bard College. She is the author …
Karen Solie
Karen Solie’s first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit …
John Steffler
John Steffler was the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada from 2006 to 2008. His previous books of poetry include The Grey Islands, That Night We Were Ravenous, …
Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Everything is Burning. Among his many honors are the Lamont Prize, the National Book Award, a …
Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen is the author of 19 books of poetry, a collection of hybrid poetic essays, Art in Time, and a volume of critical essays, Noise that …
Russell Thornton
Russell Thornton has published five previous books of poetry, with House Built of Rain being shortlisted for the BC Book Prize and the ReLit Poetry Award and Birds, …