Diane Wakoski Author

Diane Wakoski is a groundbreaking poet and the author of more than thirty books. Wakoski’s conversational, seemingly informal work merges the confessional and deep image to create compelling, story-like poems. The Poetry Society of America awarded Wakoski the William Carlos Williams Prize and Electric Literature called her a “legend.” Ms. Wakoski is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University and lives in East Lansing, Michigan. Elizabeth A. I. Powell is the author of The Atomizer; The Republic of Self, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize; and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter, named one of the “Books We Loved in 2016” by The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and literary journals such as Barrow Street, Electric Literature, Missouri Review, and Ploughshares. She is professor of writing and literature at Northern Vermont University and editor of Green Mountains Review.