Dana Levin

Dana Levin’s fourth book is “Banana Palace” (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Previous collections include “In the Surgical Theatre,” “Wedding Day,” and “Sky Burial,” which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in “Best American Poetry 2015,” “Poem-a-day,” “Kenyon Review,” and “Poetry.” Levin is a grateful recipient of many honors, including those from the NEA, PEN, the Library of Congress, as well as the Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. A teacher of poetry for twenty-five years, Levin serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. She is a contributor to “They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing,” published by Black Lawrence Press in June 2018.