Guest Editor for Poetry: Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s seventh book of poems is Paradise Is Jagged (Terrapin Books, 2023). Her sixth is The Bones of Winter Birds, and her fifth, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, is Mississippi. With Laura-Gray Street, she coedited The Ecopoetry Anthology and will be coediting The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II. A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, she has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, and residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, The Mesa Refuge, Storyknife, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of three poetry fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize, the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Literature and Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission, and other awards. Ann retired in 2022 from the University of Mississippi, where she taught in the MFA program and directed the Environmental Studies program for many years. Until recently, she also taught yoga at Southern Star in Oxford, MS.