Michael Dumanis

Michael Dumanis is the author of two books of poems, Creature (Four Way Books, 2023), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the Vermont Book Award, and the Big Other Book Award; and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. He is also coeditor of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006) and of Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of An American Master (Pleiades, 2013). An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, he holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Houston, and since 2012 has been a professor at Bennington College, where he serves as editor of Bennington Reviews.