Margo Taft Stever

Margo Taft Stever's third full length collection, THE END OF HORSES, will be published by Broadstone Books in April, 2022. In 2019, CavanKerry Press published her full-length book, Cracked Piano, which was shortlisted and received honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Book Award, and Kattywompus Press published my chapbook, Ghost Moose. My other poetry collections include The Lunatic Ball, Kattywompus Press (2015); The Hudson Line, Main Street Rag (2012); 2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry; and Reading the Night Sky, 1996 Riverstone Press Chapbook Prize (Introduction by Denise Levertov). Stever's poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies including Verse Daily, Plume Poetry Journal, Salamander, Canary Literary Journal, upstreet, Poetry Flash; Blackbird; Poem-A-Day, poets.org, Academy of American Poets; Prairie Schooner; West Branch, Cincinnati Review, New England Review, Rattapallax; and in numerous anthologies including No More Masks, edited by Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, and Women Write Resistance, edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman. New poems are forthcoming in upstreet and Mom Egg Review. Margo is the founding and continuing co-editor of Slapering Hol Press and the founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center (writerscenter.org). Under the auspices of the Writers Center, Margo is teaching a writing workshop this year at Children’s Village, a residential school for at-risk children and adolescents in Dobbs Ferry, New York. As 2021 Adjunct Assistant Professor, I taught a course on Poetry and Bioethics in the Bioethics Department at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. For more information, please see: margotaftstever.com.