PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce that the Interim Series Editors have now been named Series Editor of the Pitt Poetry Series. Terrance Hayes, Nancy Krygowski, and Jeffrey McDaniel have served as Interim Series Editors since 2021, following the departure of Ed Ochester, who retired after more than four decades at the helm of the series. Together they select and advise the Press on the hundreds of poetry manuscripts submitted for possible publication.
Terrance Hayes’s poetry collections include American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, finalist for the National Book Award; How to Be Drawn, finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Lighthead, winner of the National Book Award andfinalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Wind in a Box, finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, among others. His poems have also been featured in several editions of Best American Poetry and have won multiple Pushcart Prizes. His additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes is currently Professor of English at New York University.
Krygowski’s book Velocity won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize in 2006 and her most recent poetry collection is The Woman in the Corner. She teaches poetry in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic program.
McDaniel is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Holiday in the Islands of Grief. Other books include Chapel of Inadvertent Joy,The Endarkenment, The Splinter Factory, The Forgiveness Parade, and Alibi School. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in the Hudson Valley.
About the Pitt Poetry Series
Since its inception in 1967, the Pitt Poetry Series has been a vehicle for America’s finest contemporary poets. The series list includes a vast array of acclaimed and award-winning poets, from inaugural poet RichardBlanco, poet laureateBilly Collins, Toi Derricotte, Etheridge Knight to Ross Gay, Aurielle Marie, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Martha Collins, Mira Rosenthal, Danusha Laméris, David Hernandez, and many others.
Throughout its history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity of American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style.
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