Alice Quinn is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She was executive director of the Poetry Society of America from 2001-2019 and poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007 as well as an editor of fiction, critics’ pieces, and profiles. She is the editor of Together in a Sudden Strangeness: Poets Respond to the Pandemic and Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, and she is at work on an edition of Bishop’s journals.

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