Annie Finch

Annie Finch is a poet, writer, translator, speaker, teacher, performer, and witch. She is the author of seven books of poetry including Spells: New and Selected Poems, Among the Goddesses, Eve, and Calendars. She has also published books sharing knowledge and ideas about poetry and poetic craft such as A Poet's Craft, The Body of Poetry, The Ghost of Meter, Villanelles, and Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters. Finch writes often about magic, feminism, and spirituality and is the editor of the first major anthology of abortion literature, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. She has collaborated frequently with music, theater, and dance and is the founder of Poetry Witch Ritual Theater. Her poetry has been recognized with the Sarasvati Award and the Robert Fitzgerald Award and shortlisted for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, National Poetry Series, and Foreword Book Award, and her poems have been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She teaches widely, and has lectured and performed on five continents.