Elizabeth Willis

Elizabeth Willis is the author of six poetry collections: Liontaming in America (New Directions, 2024), long-listed for the National Book Award; Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review of Books, 2015), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Address (Wesleyan University Press, 2011); Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan University Press, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and Second Law (Avenue B, 1993).

Willis is also a literary critic, having edited the collection of essays Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place (University of Iowa Press, 2008). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012 and currently teaches in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.