Stacy Szymaszek

Stacy Szymaszek was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1999 - 2005 she learned the ropes of nonprofit arts administration while working for Woodland Pattern Book Center. In 2005, she moved to NYC to work for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, where she served as Executive Director from 2007-2018. Szymaszek is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (2005), Hyperglossia (2009), hart island (2015), Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (2016), which won the Ottoline Prize from Fence Books and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2017, and A Year From Today (2018). She is the recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in poetry. She has been visiting faculty for Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, and a mentor for Queer Art Mentorship. Szymaszek was the Hugo Visiting Writer at the University of Montana-Missoula 2018-19 and was a Poet-in-Resident at Brown University in fall 2018. She is currently writing her sixth book in Tucson, AZ.