Stephen Knauth is the author of All Calm Beyond (Four Way Books, 2025) and Dear Dusk (Cloudbank Books, 2025) and four other collections of poetry. He has published in many national journals, including Ploughshares, FIELD, North American Review, Virginia Quarterly, Review, Washington Square Review, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, and Poetry Daily, as well as in numerous anthologies. He has twice received creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and has also been awarded fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council. A native of Hales Corners, Wisconsin, he grew up in Buffalo and Pittsburgh. He lives with his family in Charlotte and works as a freelance writer and editor.
