Writer Chinua Achebe was born in the village of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. His father worked for the Church Missionary Society, and his early education was through the society’s school....
Novelist, essayist, and performance artist Kathy Acker was born and raised in New York City. She was educated at Brandeis University and the University of California at San Diego, where...
Writer and teacher Amanda Ackerman earned an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Her work blurs the lines between poetry, narrative, and prose. Her engagement with ecopoetics is informed...
A poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman earned an MFA and a PhD from Cornell University. She is well known for both her poetry and her nonfiction writing. Her books of...
Canadian poet and editor Milton Acorn was born in 1923. His books of poetry include I've Tasted My Blood (1969), More Poems for People (1972), Captain Neal MacDougal & The...
Though born in New York City in 1913, poet Virginia Hamilton Adair spent much of her youth in neighboring New Jersey. Her father, Robert Browning Hamilton, was a poet as...
Songwriter, playwright, poet, artist, and photographer Helen Adam was born in Glasgow, Scotland and studied at Edinburgh University before moving to the United States in 1939. As a teen in...
Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago, where she works in publishing and serves as the poetry editor for Black Ocean. She is the author of Operating Theater (Noctuary Press, 2015),...
Franklin Pierce Adams, or F.P.A. as he was known to readers in his lifetime, was best known for his witty and satirical column “The Conning Tower,” which was syndicated in...
An educator, consultant, editor, and poet, Leonie Adams was best known for her lyric poetry reminiscent of both the Romantic and Metaphysical periods. Her poetry won her several awards, including...
Born in 1943, Robert Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay, Australia, a harbourside suburb of Sydney. As a juvenile delinquent, he often sought refuge on the Hawkesbury River at the home...
Betty Adcock is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Slantwise (LSU Press, 2008) and Intervale: New and Selected Poems (LSU, 2002), which won the Poets’ Prize and...
Fleur Adcock was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and spent part of her childhood in England. Adcock returned to New Zealand as a young woman, where she studied classics at...
Juana Adcock is a poet and translator. Her Spanish-language poetry collection, Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014; English translation by Robin Myers, Argonautica, 2019), explores the anatomy of violence in the Mexican drug war....
Kat Addis lives in Brighton, United Kingdom, and is the author of Space Parsley (the87press, 2021).
Kim Addonizio was born in Washington DC, the daughter of a former tennis champion and a sports writer. She attended college in San Francisco, earning both her BA and MA...
Annik Adey-Babinski grew up in Ottawa, Canada. Her first book of poetry, Okay Cool No Smoking Love Pony, was published by Word Works in 2017. She lives with her family in...
Jamaican poet and writer Opal Palmer Adisa was born in Kingston. After a childhood education in British colonialist writers, Adisa came to the United States at the age of 15...
Lucy Adkins grew up in rural Nebraska, and she attended country schools and the University of Nebraska before earning a BA from Auburn University. She is the author of the...
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Cornell University. His first scholarly monograph is Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry (2016). He is also the author...
