Spring Ulmer

Spring Ulmer was raised in Vermont. She attended The Cooper Union School of Art and earned both an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa, where she received an Iowa Arts Fellowship.

Ulmer has published works of poetry and prose: Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April (Tupelo Press, 2025), selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of Tupelo Press’s 2022 Dorset Prize; Bestiality of the Involved (Etruscan Press, 2022); The Age of Virtual Reproduction (Essay Press, 2009); and Benjamin’s Spectacles (Kore Press, 2007), selected by Sonia Sanchez for Kore Press’s 2007 First Book Award. Ulmer is also the translator of Exercises, 1950–1960 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) by Yannis Ritsos. She will be publishing a monograph titled The Agency of the Missing: African Portraits of Green Resistance, forthcoming from Routledge. 

A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow and a 2016 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize winner, Ulmer is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Middlebury College and will be a tenure-track assistant professor there beginning this July.