The judge for the 2024 Stevens Poetry Book Manuscript Competition is Diane Seuss
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Born in Indiana and raised in rural Michigan, Diane Seuss is the author of half
a dozen collections of poems, most recently, Modern Poetry, issued by Graywolf
Books in March 2024.
Her previous books of poetry are frank: sonnets (2021),
winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Still
Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018);
Four-Legged Girl (2015),
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner
of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998). Seuss
earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MSW from Western Michigan University.
She was Writer in Residence at Kalamazoo College from 1988 to 2017 and was the
MacLean Distinguished
Visiting Professor in the Department of English at
Colorado College. She was a 2021Guggenheim fellow, and was elected to the Board
of Chancellors of the Academy of American
Poets in 2024.