Stephen Massimilla

Stephen Massimilla is a poet, scholar, professor, painter, and author, most recently of poetry collection Frank Dark (Barrow Street Press, 2022) and the coedited 2022 social justice poetry anthology, Stronger than Fear. His multi-genre Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo Press, 2016) won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, an IAN Book of the Year Award, and others. Previous books and awards include The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat (SFASU Press Prize); Forty Floors from Yesterday (Bordighera Poetry Prize, CUNY); The Grolier Poetry Prize; the Van Rensselaer Prize, selected by Kenneth Koch; a scholarly study of myth in poetry; award-winning translations; and others. His work has been featured recently in such publications as AGNI, Barrow Street, the Chicago Tribune, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, HuffPost, The Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore, The Southern Poetry Review, Tampa Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and hundreds of others. Massimilla has been interviewed on public radio and television and performed his work at many venues, including Carnegie Hall. He holds an MFA and a PhD from Columbia University and teaches at Columbia and The New School. He has also worked in the art world; he has completed hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings, a portion of which he has exhibited. For more info: www.cookingwiththemuse.com and www.stephenmassimilla.com