Michael Prior

Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing, Mellon ACM Faculty Fellow
Poetry, politics of poetic form, Asian American poetries, creative nonfiction, intergenerational memory, literary citizenship.

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Michael Prior‘s third book of poems, Wartime Measures is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart/ Penguin Random House in spring 2027. His second collection, Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020), won the Canada-Japan Literary Award, the BC & Yukon Book Prizes’ Poetry Prize, and the Freund Prize. He is the recent recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series. He has been the writer-in-residence at Wichita State University, North Carolina State University, and The Blake School. He edits Véhicule Press’s poetry imprint, Signal Editions, and is currently at work on a book of essays.

    Poetry

    Politics of poetic form

    Asian American poetries

    Creative Nonfiction

    Intergenerational memory

    Literary citizenship

    B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia

    M.A. in English Literature from the University of Toronto

    M.F.A. in Poetry from Cornell University.