Annie Finch

Annie Finch is a poet, translator, cultural critic, and performance artist. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Earth Days: Poems, Chants, and Spellsin Five Directions (Nirala Publications, 2023); Eve (Story Line Press, 1997) and Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003), both finalists for the National Poetry Series; Spells: New and Selected Poems and The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells (2019) from Wesleyan University Press;and the verse play Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto inSeven Dreams (Red Hen Press, 2010), winner of the Saraswati Award. Finch’s work has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011) and The Norton Anthology of World Literature and has been translated into eight languages. 

Finch is the editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020) as well as nine anthologies of poetic craft. Her other books on
poetics include The Ghost of Meter (University of Michigan Press, 1993); A Poet’s Craft (University of Michigan Press, 2011); The Body of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005); and How to Scan a Poem (Poetry Witch Press, 2023). Her verse plays and theater rituals have been produced at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Deepak HomeBase, and the American Opera Project. She serves as fellow emerita of the Black Earth Institute and on the advisory board of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. 

Finch is a winner of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for lifetime contributions to the art and craft of versification. She lives in New York City and has presented her work across the United States, in India and Mexico, and throughout Africa and Europe.