Education
MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire
BA in History from the University of Massachusetts, Magna Cum Laude
Books
Rosetta (Ex Ophidia, 2021)
Proof (Codhill Press, 2014)
The Bees Are Waiting (Marick Press, 2012)
Books in Translation
Tomates de septembre: New and Selected Poems (Bilingual French-English, Cheyne-éditeur, 2020)
Awards & Fellowships
For Rosetta: Winner of the Ex Ophidia Poetry Prize; Finalist for the New American Poetry Prize, the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize; Semi-Finalist for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
For Proof: Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award; Finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Nightboat Press Poetry Prize; First Runner-Up for New England Book Festival; Semi-Finalist for the Akron Poetry Prize and the Felix Pollack Prize
For The Bees Are Waiting: Winner of the Marick Press Poetry Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award, the First Horizon Award; Named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book; Finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and the Del Sol Press Poetry Prize; Semi-Finalist for the Hudson Prize and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
Barbara Bradley Poetry Prize
2014 Emerging Writer Fellowship, The Writer’s Center, Bethesda MD
Dick Shea Memorial Award for Poetry, University of New Hampshire
Chancellor’s Scholarship for Excellence in Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts
Arts & Letters PRIME Poetry Prize Finalist
Anthologies
Without a Doubt: Poems Illustrating Faith (NYQ Books, 2021)
Koncert w Domu Chopina: Antologia poezji i prozy autorów polsko-amerykańskich (Concert at Chopin’s House: Poetry and Prose by Polish-American Authors) (Śląsk, 2019)
IMPRIMO: The Time Anthology (Artificium, 2017)
Nature Poetry: An International Anthology of Poems on the Natural World (Z Publishing, 2016)
If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
The Doll Collection (Terrapin Books, 2016)
Stories of Music (Timbre Press, 2015)
Winged: New Writing on Bees (Poulin Publishing, 2014)
Readings and Speaking Engagements
Featured speaker at Les Lectures sous l’Arbre (Readings Under the Tree) poetry festival organized by Cheyne editions in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France.
Panelist and reader at the La Guagua Community Poetry Festival: Voices and Translations, Middlesex Community College
Panelist at the New Hampshire Poetry Festival on the theme Wild and Holy: Encountering the Sacred through Poetic Engagement with the Natural World
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Amherst Arts Walk, Emily Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, MA
Dickinson Memorial Library, Northfield MA
Yiddishkayt Culture Salon, Los Angeles CA
The Writer’s Center, Bethesda MD
Featherstone Center for the Arts, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard MA
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock NY
Concord Public Library, Concord MA
Visiting Writer, State University of New York, New Paltz
The Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Cambridge MA
Interview and reading on San Francisco Bay Area public radio station KKUP’s weekly poetry program, Out of Our Minds
Creative Writers Reading Series at Penn State Erie
Massachusetts Library Association Annual Conference, Boston
Collected Poets Series, Shelburne Falls MA
Amherst Poetry Festival: Poetry from the Jones Library, Amherst MA
Wayland Public Library Reading Series, Wayland MA
AGNI reading at Harvard’s Yenching Library
Featured reader at University of New Hampshire’s AlumFest
RiverRun Bookstore, Portsmouth NH
Portsmouth Public Library Reading Series, Portsmouth NH
Journal Publications: Poetry
AGNI: “Dog Adrift: Poland, January 2010,” “My People,” “The Noodle Maker’s Shop”; American Letters & Commentary: “Feathers”; The American Poetry Journal: “Bread,” “Buttonwood Park Zoo,” “Tailed”; anderbo.com: “Bad Honey”; Artful Dodge: “Visitors”; Arts & Letters: “Beautiful World,” “Snake”; Atlanta Review: “Wedding Ring”; Barnstorm: “Glowing in the Dark,” “Guardian,” “Moroshka”; Barnwood: “Paintbrush”; Bellevue Literary Review: “Martin, 1918”; Blueline: “Fingers,” “Three Secrets”; Boulevard Magazine: “Red Sweater”; caesura: “Blue Teapot”; The Café Review: “Closer,” “Elephant,” “Evelyn,” “Punishing Snows,” “Window Watching at Midnight”; Cairn: “Cut Flowers”; Cider Press Review: “All Hallows’ Eve,” “Maps”; Cimarron Review: “the original wind has not yet”; The Cincinnati Review: “The Globe”; Cold Mountain Review: “Binoculars,” “The Watch Repairman’s Daughter”; Columbia Poetry Review: “In Memory,” “Marina Tsvetaeva Home Museum”; The Comstock Review: “Last Night,” “Wisdom”; Connecticut Review: “Pencil”; Connotation Press: “From the Deck,” “Planet Kepler 22B,” “Sand,” “Sounding,” “Sunbeam Bread”; Constellations: “Frame,” “Gesture,” “Shape”; Contrary: “Carving,” “Holy Water,” “In a Certain Light,” “Morning Ritual,” “Postcards from a Cold Place,” “Red Giant Leap,” “The Maintenance of Public Order,” “Tools”; Copper Nickel: “Closer,” “In its Body”; Crab Creek Review: “Émigré,” “Messenger”; Cream City Review: “Eve of the Theophany,” “Ruins”; The Cumberland River Review: “Cold April,” “Small Hands”; Delmarva Review: “She Waits”; DMQ Review: “The Invisible”; Drunken Boat: “Dangerous”; Ecotone: “Animal,” “September Tomatoes,” “Street Food in Beijing”; Etchings: “Handed Down,” “Perseids”; The Evansville Review: “Statue”; Faultline: “Swimming Out”; Fourteen Hills: “The hailstones bit,” “Paradise Farms”; The Fourth River: “Blue Heart”; Frogpond: “New”; Green Mountains Review: “Siberian Cherries”; The Greensboro Review: “What Was Left”; Half Drunk Muse: “Swallow”; Hanging Loose: “Armadillo,” “Catch,” “Caw,” “Cuckoo Clock”; Harpur Palate: “Farmer’s Bees,” “Sanctuary”; Hayden’s Ferry Review: “Medicine”; Humana Obscura: “Fur”; Hunger Mountain: “Icons: Charo,” “Icons: Tiny Tim”; Indiana Review: “Frozen Blood”; Iron Horse Literary Review: “Habitat”; Kestrel: “Catching Fire,” “Message”; Lake Effect: “Basket,” “The Seeded Eye,” “Walking at Midnight,” “Victory Day”; Lilliput Review: “The Expression of Rain”; The Literary Review: “Mystery Piano Found Deep in Cape Cod Woods,“ “Long Time,” “Neon”; Little Patuxent Review: “One Hundred Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Recorded in Amber”; Make: A Chicago Literary Magazine: “Folk”; Many Mountains Moving: “Nocturnes”; Memorious: “Overtime”; Mid-American Review: “Antarctica,” “Beetle”; The Midwest Quarterly: “Idea of Poppies,” “Memory,” “One Bright Thing”; Minnetonka Review: “Amaryllis,” “Gathering,” “Repairs”; MiPOesias: “Icons: Iggy Pop on The Dinah Shore Show,” “My Salt,” “The Horse’s Neck”; Modern Haiku: “The dog”; Molecule: “Sub-Zero”; Natural Bridge: “Cut Hair,” “Regret,” “A Small Notebook,” “Observatory”; New Madrid: “Colt,” “Egg”; New Ohio Review: “Midnight Train”; New York Quarterly: “New Bedford”; Nimrod International Journal: “Edges,” “New Word,” “Rosetta,” “Vermeer’s Lacemaker”; Notre Dame Review: “Circle”; One Sentence Poems: “Bridge Work”; Phoebe: “Black Earth,” “Cinema / Verity”; Pilgrimage: “Wild Yeast”; Pirene’s Fountain: “Fallen”; Pleiades: “Canes”; Plume: “Albatross”; Poet Lore: “Daylight Savings Time,” “Kitchen Catechism,” “Saw”; Poetry East: “The Palmer Method”; Poetry Northwest: “Frozen Boot”; Qarrtsiluni: “Fist,” “Rubber”; Rattle: “Soap”; REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters: “At the Spice Market,” “Bookshop Biblio Globus,” “Reading Madame Bovary,” “The Wound,” “To Metacomet, King of the Wampanoags”; RHINO: “Fourth of July”; Ruminate Magazine: “Down Here,” “One Chance”; The Saint Ann’s Review: “Boat Building,” “The Visit”; Salamander: “The Only Story”; Salt Hill: “Wheat”; The Scream Online: “Elegy for Jane”; Shenandoah: “Wreck”; Small Spiral Notebook: “The Taxidermist’s Display Case”; So to Speak: “Breaking the Fast”; Sou’wester: “Natural Histories”; Spillway: “Daffodils,” “The Back-Up Singer”; The Southern Review: “Escape,” “Icons: Rose Marie on The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Miniature,” “Moose,” “Proof,” “Reading Anna Karenina,” “Roots,” “Shadows”; The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review: “Blake”; The Spoon River Poetry Review: “Apparition,” “Her Last Free Dive,” “Into November”; St. Petersburg Review: “Nimbostratus”; Tuesday; An Art Project: “Country Road”; Two Review: “Elegy,” “The True Measure”; Upstreet: “Emily’s Dress”; Vallum: “Meant To Be”; Valparaiso Poetry Review: “The Old Country,” “Genie the Imprisoned Child”; Water~Stone Review: “Bone Flute,” “Brush and Ink Herd of Horses”; Wild Apples: “Opening,” “The Way Back”
Journal Publications: Essays & Reviews
The Inquisitive Eater: “An Offering”
Entropy: Andrea Cohen’s Everything
New Pages: “Boundless Energy in Yi Lei’s Poetry”
Translation Times, UMass Amherst Translation Center: “Translating Emily Dickinson”
Editing, Judging, and Manuscript Review
Member of ACES: The Society for Editing; previously served as Intern Poetry Editor at The Paris Review and language editor at Russian Academy of Sciences Nauka/Interperiodica
Manuscript reader for the Perugia Press Book Prize; judged SUNY New Paltz’s Creative Writing Award in Poetry and Penn State Erie’s Sonnenberg Poetry Award
Teaching
Academic Resource Specialist and writing mentor at Springfield College (5 years); composition instructor at the University of New Hampshire (2 years); writing tutor at the University of Massachusetts (2 years)
Visiting Writer: Poetry workshop at the State University of NY, New Paltz
Poet in the Schools: Creative writing instruction. Schools include Friends Academy in South Dartmouth and Community School in Amherst, MA (1 year)
English as a Second Language Instructor at the Jones Library ESL Center/Amherst; Language Link/Moscow; the American English School/Vilnius; Jewish Family and Children’s Service/Boston; Fall River Social Services/Fall River MA; and the University of Massachusetts (15 years)
Karina Borowicz 