Annie Finch

Poet, critic, playwright, and performer Annie Finch is the author of twenty books of poetry and poetics including Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003) and Eve (Story Line Press, 1997), both finalists for the National Poetry Series, Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), the writing guide A Poet’s Craft (University of Michigan Press, 2012), works of poetics including The Ghost of Meter (University of Michigan Press, 1993) and The Body of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and anthologies including A Formal Feeling Comes (WordTech Communications, 2007), Villanelles (Everyman’s Library, 2012), An Exaltation of Forms (University of Michigan Press, 2002), Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman’s Library, 2015), and Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Her other works include poetry translations and collaborations with choral music, opera, theater, and dance. She earned a PhD from Stanford University and served for a decade as Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. Based in New York City, she offers workshops and performances worldwide. (Updated 04/2026)