Annie Finch

Annie Finch is the author of seven books of poetry, including Earth Days: Poems, Chants, and Spells in Five Directions (Nirala), Eve and Calendars (both finalists for the National Poetry Series), and Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (awarded the Sarasvati Award). Her other books include A Poet’s Craft, Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, and Choice Words: Writers on Abortion.  Finch’s poems have appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, Paris Review, Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and Norton Anthology of World Literature.  Educated at Yale University and Stanford University, where she earned her PhD, she teaches meter and magic at PoetryWitchCommunity.org and has shared her poems and Poetry Witch Ritual Theater performances across the U.S. and in India, Mexico, Africa, and throughout Europe.