BK Fischer

BK Fischer is the author of Ceive (BOA Editions, 2021), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and four previous books of poetry—Radioapocrypha (Mad Creek, Ohio State UP, 2018), My Lover’s Discourse (Tinderbox Editions, 2018), St. Rage's Vault (The Word Words, 2013), and Mutiny Gallery (Truman State UP, 2011). She is also the author of a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006). Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Nation, American Poets, Kenyon Review, Jacket2, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, FIELD, Literary Mama, WSQ, Modern Language Studies, Ninth Letter, and other journals. She was the inaugural poet laureate of Westchester County New York from 2021-2023, and a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, with her family.