Dana Levin’s latest book of poetry is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), a New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love”. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award.

Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Her fourth book, Banana Palace (2016), was a finalist for the Rilke Prize. As co-editor, her book Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master was published by The Unsung Masters Series in 2023.

Levin’s poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Boston Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and The Nation. Her fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as the Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. 

A teacher of poetry for over thirty years, Levin has served as the Russo Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico, as well as Faculty and Chair of the Creative Writing and Literature Department at College of Santa Fe and Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She taught for twenty years for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Levin currently teaches for the Bennington Writing Seminars and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.