Jami Macarty

Jami Macarty is the author of the full-length poetry collections The Long Now Conditions Permit, winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Series Prize and a 2025 University of Nevada Press title, and The Minuses (2020), a Mountain West Poetry Series title published by The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University and winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award - Poetry Arizona. Macarty is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry: The Whole Catastrophe (#38, Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024), 2025 finalist for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Instinctive Acts (Nomados Literary Publishers, 2018), Mind of Spring (No. 22, Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017), winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award, and Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Macarty's poems appear or are forthcoming in American, British, Australian, and Canadian literary magazines, including Arc Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Capilano Review, Colorado Review, Interim, EVENT, Jet Fuel Review, The Journal, Ocean State Review, Puerto del Sol, The Rumpus, Redivider, Seneca Review, Vallum, and Volt. Former Executive Director of Tucson Poetry Festival (1996-2005), Macarty teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University; yoga and meditation privately. As well as in Canada and the United States, Macarty has taught English and yoga in Ecuador, Ethiopia, Nepal, and United Arab Emirates. As an independent editor, Macarty promotes the writing of other wordworkers, poets, and artists. Macarty's own writing has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and British Columbia Arts Council; by the Writers Studio at Banff Centre, the Community of Writers, and Napa Valley Writers Conferece; by Pushcart Prize nominations; by the tireless editors of literary magazines and presses, and by beloved readers.