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), the recipient of the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize for Poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan University Press, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and Second Law (Avenue B, 1993). Her poetry has been translated into Dutch, French, Polish, and Slovak.

Willis is also a literary critic, having edited the essay collection Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place (University of Iowa Press, 2008). She was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2012 and has held residencies at Brown University, MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, and the Centre International de Poésie in Marseille. She currently teaches in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.