Poetry and the Senses Fellows

Matthew Olzmann

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Dartmouth

Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit. He received a BA from the University of Michigan–Dearborn and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is the author of Constellation Route (Alice James Books, 2022); Contradictions in the Design (Alice James Books, 2016); and Mezzanines (Alice James Books, 2013), winner of the 2011 Kundiman Poetry Prize.

Olzmann has received fellowships from the Kresge Arts Foundation and Kundiman, among others. He teaches at Dartmouth College and in the MFA...

Morgan Parker

ARC Fellow, Poet, Essayist, and Novelist

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night...

Vincente Perez

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Vincente Perez (He/They) is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities. Their work centers Black and Latinx lived experience with a stylistic approach that samples and (re)mixes Hip-Hop and Performance Poetry into counternarratives. He is a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies program (Department of Theater,...

Beth Piatote

ARC Director, 2020 ARC Fellow – Poetry and the Senses

Beth Piatote is a creative writer, playwright, and scholar. She is the author of two books, including the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize, and short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Association “Golden Poppy” Prize for Fiction. The Beadworkers was named the winner of the 2020 Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories. Her full-length play...

Noʻu Revilla

ARC Fellow, Poet, and Educator

Noʻu Revilla (she/her/ʻo ia) is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator. Born and raised on the island of Maui, she prioritizes aloha, gratitude, and collaboration in her practice. Her debut book ASK THE BRINDLED (Milkweed Editions 2022) won the 2021 National Poetry Series and 2023 Balcones Prize. She also won the 2021 Omnidawn Broadside Poetry prize with her poem “iwi hilo means thigh bone means core of one’s being,” which was composed in the Līlīlehua rain of Pālolo valley. Her writing has been featured in Poetry, Lit Hub, ANMLY, Beloit, Poetry Northwest, World...

Jared Robinson

ARC Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley in English

Jared Robinson is a poet and critic from Indianapolis, Indiana. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of English, where his work has been supported by the Arts Research Center and the Black Studies Collaboratory. He writes and thinks about autobiography, his own and those penned by others, across multiple mediums. He is currently at work on a dissertation tentatively titled: “To Save My Own Life”: The Injunction to Truth in African American Autobiography, 1785-1865.

Jared was an ARC Fellow in Fall...

Craig Santos Perez

Poet, Essayist, and Publisher

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamorro from Mongmong, Guam. In 1995, his family moved to California. He lived there for fifteen years before moving to Hawai‘i. Perez earned his BA in literature and creative writing in 2002 at the University of Redlands in California and his MFA in poetry at the University of San Francisco in 2006.

Perez has authored six books of poetry: From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023), which was the winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Poetry; Habitat Threshold (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020);...

Maw Shein Win

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Maw Shein Win is a poet, editor, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito, California (2016 – 2018), and her full-length poetry collection,...

Jake Skeets

ARC Fellow, Poet, and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oklahoma

Jake Skeets (he/him) is Tsi’naajínii born for Tábąąhá; his maternal grandparents are the Táchii’nii and his paternal grandparents are the Tódík’ózhí. Skeets is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. His debut collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, is a winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His honors include a 2020-2021 Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.

His poems and essays have been...

Danez Smith

ARC Fellow, Poet, Writer, and Performer

Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez's poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Best American Poetry and on the Late Show with...