Stacy Szymaszek

Stacy Szymaszek is a poet and arts administrator. She is the author of the chapbook The Hero Auden (Ugly Duckling Presse), as well as the books Emptied of All Ships, Hyperglossia (each from Litmus Press), A Year From Today, hart island (each from Nightboat Books), and Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (Fence Books), which won the Ottoline Prize and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. She received the 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Szymaszek is a regular teacher at the Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, a mentor for Queer Art Mentorship, and the 2018 Hugo Visiting Writer at the University of Montana. She was the Executive Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church from 2007-2018.