Cleopatra Mathis has published eight collections of poetry, most recently After the Body: Poems New and Selected (Sarabande, 2020). Her poems have appeared widely in magazines, and journals, including The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, ThreePenny Review, and Best American Poetry, as well as numerous anthologies and textbooks. Awards for her work include two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, three Pushcart Prizes, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. From 1982 until 2016, she taught at Dartmouth College, where she founded the creative writing program.
