Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets, a New York Times Editors' Choice, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, and one of The Atlantic's ten best books of 2023. Couplets was published by FSG (US), Faber & Faber (UK), Klett-Cotta (Germany), and Brombergs (Sweden), and is forthcoming from La Nave di Teseo (Italy), Navona (Spain), and Editions Les Escales (France).
Maggie's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, POETRY, Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review.
Maggie was the 2020–'21 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Poetry at Colgate University, the 2019–'20 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University, and the 2016–'18 Jan Gabrial Fellow at NYU, where she received her MFA. She is also the recipient of fellowships from Poets & Writers, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Community of Writers, the Disquiet Literary Program, and the Fine Arts Work Center.
Her agent is Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit.
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