Stephen Massimilla

Stephen Massimilla is a poet, scholar, professor, and painter/photographer. Acclaim for his previous books includes a Stephen F. Austin University Press Prize for The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat; the Bordighera/CUNY Poetry Prize for Forty Floors from Yesterday; the Grolier Poetry Prize for Later on Aiaia; a Van Rensselaer Award, selected by Kenneth Koch, and other honors. He has recent work in hundreds of journals, periodicals, and anthologies. Massimilla holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University and teaches at Columbia University and The New School. For more info: Stephenmassimilla.com and www.cookingwiththemuse.com