Alice Quinn

Alice Quinn has been teaching at the School of the Arts since 1990. She was executive director of the Poetry Society America from 2001-2019 and poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007. She was also an editor of fiction, critics' pieces, and profiles at the magazine, working with such distinguished writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Steven Millhauser, Sapphire, Lorrie Moore, Deborah Eisenberg, Anna Deavere-Smith, Joan Acocella, and Anthony Lane. Early in her career, she was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf where many poets and writers she edited won major awards for poetry, biography, and fiction—among them Katha Pollitt, Edward Hirsch, Sharon Olds, Marie Ponsot, Ann Arensberg, and Elizabeth Frank. Her articles and interviews with poets and writers have appeared in Artforum, The Forward, Poetry Ireland, The New Yorker, and The New Yorker Online. She is the editor of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop and is at work on an edition of Bishop's journals. In spring, 2023, Knopf issued the paperback of an anthology she recently edited: Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic.