Bio

Angie Mazakis’s first book, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First,was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for The Miller Williams Prize, published by University of Arkansas Press, and named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Boston Globe. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Columbia Journal, Washington Square Review, Indiana Review, Conduit, Lana Turner Journal, Mizna and forthcoming in The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. Her essays have been published in The Atlantic, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, and other journals. She has an MFA from George Mason University and a PhD from Ohio University.