About
ANNETTE BASALYGA was a fellow at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she received an M.F.A. in poetry. She has taught at the University of Puerto Rico, Penn State, Worthington Campus and as Lecturer of Distinction, at Marywood University, also in Pennsylvania. Among the awards she has received are:
- Individual Artist’s Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- Duncan Lawrie Prize from the Arvon Foundation, London
- Borestone Mountain Poetry Award and publication
- Visiting artist for the Paumanok Poets Series
- First prize in the Chester H. Jones Foundation Poetry Competition
Most recently, she was resident poet at The Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. Her poems have been published in numerous journals including Commonweal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Columbia, Comstock Review, The Hollins Critic, Iconoclast, The New Orleans Review, North American Review and Verbatim. Her work has been anthologized in The Palpable Clock and in The Pater Yearbook of American Poetry.
She lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
