Ginny Lowe Connors

Ginny Lowe Connors’ chapbook, Under the Porch (Hill-Stead Museum, 2010) won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize.

She’s published four full-length poetry collections: Barbarians in the Kitchen, The Unparalleled Beauty of a Crooked Line, Toward the Hanging Tree: Poems of Salem Village, and Without Goodbyes: From Puritan Deerfield to Mohawk Kahnawake.

She’s also edited several poetry anthologies, including Essential Love, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, and Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, and numerous poetry awards have come her way, including Atlanta Review’s International Poetry Competition Prize and Passager Journal's annual poetry prize. She was named Poet of the Year by the New England Association of Teachers of English.

An executive board member of the Connecticut Poetry Society, she also runs a small poetry press, Grayson Books. She is co-editor of the national poetry journal Connecticut River Review.

Connors has served as the Poet Laureate of the town of West Hartford, Connecticut and is a founding member of the CCPL (Connecticut Coalition of Poets Laureate). She initiated the Poetry in the Parks program in her community, which has installed poetry stands in local parks featuring poetry by local poets enhanced by the artwork of area artists.

Connors earned an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts.