Margot Wizansky

Poet

Brookline, MA

Massachusetts US

Email:

mwizanskypoetry@gmail.com

Website:

margotwiz.com

Author's Bio

Wizansky’s poems appear in journals such as New Ohio Review, Spillway, Cimarron, Missouri Review. She edited Mercy of Tides, Rough Places Plain, and What the Poem Knows, Tribute to Barbara Helfgott Hyett. She won a Carlow University residency, Ireland, a Writers@Work fellowship, Salt Lake City, transcribed the oral history of Emerson Stamps, his grandparents, enslaved, parents, sharecroppers. Missouri Review, 2018, featured poems about him. Wild for Life, her chapbook was published by Lily Poetry Review, 2021.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge (Grayson Books, 2006)

Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House (S Press, 2003)

Journals:

American Journal of Nursing

Antigonish Review

Crab Orchard Review

Kalliope

Spillway

Prizes won:

Writers@Work Fellowship, Salt Lake City, 2008

Carlow University Residency, Sligo, Ireland, 2010

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

The Woman Who Died in her Sleep by Linda Gregerson

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania

Raised in:

Allentown, PA

Pennsylvania

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Last update: Dec 21, 2021