Christina Pugh’s six books of poems include The Right Hand (Tupelo Press, 2024) and Stardust Media (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the Juniper Prize. She is also the author of Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century (University of Michigan Press, 2024). A former Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, she is a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she was recently named Distinguished Scholar of the Year in Humanities, Arts, Design, and Architecture. (Updated 04/2026)