02/09/2025
We are thrilled to welcome the current Poet Laureate of both Beacon and Dutchess County, NYU Emeritus Professor, writer, teacher, and curator to the 2026 Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers Workshop in Kathmandu.
She is the author of four acclaimed poetry collections—Turn Up The Heat and Word Has It (both published by Nirala Series), Limitless Tiny Boat, and Triangulation From A Known Point—as well as a chapbook, Living with the Fireman, and a work of literary criticism, Work in the English Novel. Her memoir, Long Ago in the Twentieth Century, is forthcoming from Grid Books.
Her poems have recently appeared in The Beltway Quarterly, On the Seawall, The Nu Review, Pratik, Salon Zine, and Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, among others. She has performed her work widely across the United States and internationally.
For over two decades, she taught in and directed the creative and expository writing programs at the School of Professional Studies, New York University. She was also the founding director of NYU’s Summer Intensive Creative Writing Workshop, which she led from 1999 to 2016.
She is the founder of LIVE WRITING: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, active since 2018. Before the pandemic, she curated the Spring Street Reading Series at Atlas Studios in Newburgh, New York, and in 2023 became one of the founding curators of the BeaconLitFest at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, New York.
Currently based in Beacon, NY, she continues to teach through LIVE WRITING and the New York Writers Workshop.
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