About Gillian Conoley
Gillian Conoley (born March 29, 1955) is an American poet. Conoley serves as a professor and poet-in-residence at Sonoma State University. Conoley is author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has been anthologized in Norton’s American Hybrid, Counterpath’s Postmodern Lyricisms, Mondadori’s Nuova Poesia Americana (Italian), and Best American Poetry. Conoley's poetry has appeared in Conjunctions, New American Writing, American Poetry Review, The Canary, A Public Space, Carnet de Rouge, Jacket, Or, Fence, Verse, Ironwood, jubilat, Zyzzyva, Ploughshares, the Denver Quarterly, the Missouri Review and other publications. She is the recipient of the Jerome J. Seshtack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, and several Pushcart Prizes. She is the founder and editor of Volt. She is a former visiting poet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and at the University of Denver, Vermont College, Texas State University, and Tulane University. Conoley has four Pushcart Prize publications and has won a Fund for Poetry Award and the Academy of American Poets Award. Thousand Times Broken, Three Books by Henri Michaux, translated by Gillian Conoley at City Lights Publishers.
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