Christina Pugh

Christina Pugh is the author of six books of poems, including The Right Hand (Tupelo Press, 2024) and Stardust Media (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Juniper Prize in Poetry. In 2024, she also published a book of essays on poetry titled Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century (University of Michigan Press “Poets on Poetry” series, 2024), which was a recommended book in Choice.  Her poems have appeared widely, including in The Atlantic, Poetry, Yale Review, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, and other publications. A former Guggenheim fellow in poetry, she has also received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry magazine, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and others.  She is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was recently named Distinguished Scholar of the Year in Humanities, Arts, Design, and Architecture.  Her website is christinapughpoet.com.