Stephen Massimilla

Stephen Massimilla is a poet, painter, professor, author, and editor, most recently of the 2022 social justice poetry anthology, Stronger Than Fear . His multi-genre Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo Press, 2016) won the Eric Hoffer Award and many others. Previous books and honors include The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat (SFASU Press Prize); Forty Floors from Yesterday (Bordighera Prize, CUNY); the Grolier Poetry Prize; a scholarly study of myth in poetry; and award-winning translations....See more

Stephen Massimilla is a poet, painter, professor, author, and editor, most recently of the 2022 social justice poetry anthology, Stronger Than Fear . His multi-genre Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo Press, 2016) won the Eric Hoffer Award and many others. Previous books and honors include The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat (SFASU Press Prize); Forty Floors from Yesterday (Bordighera Prize, CUNY); the Grolier Poetry Prize; a scholarly study of myth in poetry; and award-winning translations. His work appears in hundreds of publications. Massimilla holds an MFA and a PhD from Columbia University and teaches at Columbia University and The New School. See less