Margot Schilpp

Margot Schilpp was born in Stuttgart, Germany. She is the author of five volumes of poetry: Markers and Shrines (2025), Afterswarm (2019), Civil Twilight (2012), Laws of My Nature (2005), and The World's Last Night (2001), all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines, and she has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches at Southern Connecticut State University and at Quinnipiac University. Schilpp lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, the poet Jeff Mock. They have two daughters, Paula and Leah.