Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight (Yale University Press, 2009), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and a recipient of the Sarton Award in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her second book, Star Lake (The Song Cave, 2022), is both intimate and profoundly vast. Collins writes sharply self-aware poems that stretch through time: the voices of past grief speak to the writer, who cannot help but look forward into eternity, or rather decide that “we’re already in it.” She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry, and a doctorate in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Denver. She has also taught in the Creative Writing Program at NYU. Apart from her work as a writer and teacher, she has also been an associate producer on the PBS documentary series Frontline and American Experience. Collins’s courses include the Intermediate Poetry Workshop and Introduction to Creative Writing. She has previously taught the Advanced Poetry Workshop as the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. Collins teaches Creative Writing at Smith College.

https://www.smith.edu/academics/faculty/arda-collins

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