Michael Collier

Michael Collier is the author of four books of poems, The Clasp and Other Poems (Wesleyan University Press), The Folded Heart (University Press of New England), The Neighbor (Phoenix Poets Series), and, most recently, The Ledge (Mariner Books), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Collier earned an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. He is a former Poet Laureate for the state of Maryland and is the Director of the prestigious Breadloaf Writers Conference. He has received Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, two NEA fellowships, a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Antaeus, The Nation, the New Republic, and Poetry. Collier has taught at Yale University and John Hopkins University, and is currently Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where he serves as co-director of the Creative Writing Program.