Dante Di Stefano

Dante Di Stefano is the author of six poetry collections and a chapbook, including, most recently, Heartland Errata (Etruscan Press, 2026) and the book-length poems, Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) and The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025). His other poetry collections are: Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, 2016); Ill Angels (Etruscan Press, 2019); and Lullaby with Incendiary Device, published in a three-in-one edition titled Generations (Etruscan Press, 2022), also featuring work by William Heyen and H.L. Hix. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He has won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the On Teaching Poem Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (UK), the Red Hen Press Poetry Award, the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, as well as prizes from The Academy of American Poets, The Crab Orchard Review, The Madison Review, Slippery Elm, and Stone Canoe. He co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America (NYQ Books, 2018). He holds a PhD in English Literature from Binghamton University. He teaches high school English in Endicott, NY and lives in Endwell New York with his wife, Christina, their daughter, Luciana, their son, Dante Jr., and their goldendoodle, Sunny.