Stephen Massimilla

Stephen Massimilla is a poet, scholar, professor, and painter. His multi-genre Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo Press, 2016) won the Eric Hoffer Award and many others. His new poetry book, Frank Dark, is forthcoming from Barrow Street Press; and he is coeditor of Stronger than Fear: Poems of Compassion and Social Justice. Previous books and awards include The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat (SFA Press Prize); Forty Floors from Yesterday (Bordighera Prize, CUNY); The Grolier Poetry Prize; the Van Rensselaer Prize, selected by Kenneth Koch; a study of myth in poetry; many Pushcart nominations; etc. He has recent poems in AGNI, American Literary Review, Chelsea, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, Poetry Daily, Poet Lore, The Southern Review, Tampa Review, Verse Daily, and hundreds of other publications. Massimilla holds an MFA and a PhD from Columbia University and teaches at Columbia and The New School. www.stephenmassimilla.com and www.cookingwiththemuse.com