Alice Quinn

ALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop's writings, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments , as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop's journals. She lives in New York City and...See more

ALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop's writings, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments , as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop's journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton, New York See less