When a reader once called me a research-based poet, I was startled. I had never…
Christina Pugh
Christina Pugh’s new book of poetry, The Right Hand, was just released by Tupelo Press. Her book of essays, titled Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century, was also published in 2024 as a volume in the “Poets on Poetry” series from the University of Michigan Press. She is the author of five previous books of poems including Stardust Media (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, 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 www.christinapughpoet.com.