Creative Writers' Series: Poet Amy Gerstler

Poet Amy Gerstler's book Dearest Creature (Penguin 2009) was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, and was short listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Her previous twelve books include Ghost Girl, Medicine, Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award, Nerve Storm, and Bitter Angel, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was the 2010 guest editor of the yearly anthology Best American Poetry. In 2011, she was on the panel of judges for the National Book Award in poetry.

Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, several volumes of Best American Poetry, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry. She is a faculty member at the Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College, Vermont, and teaches in the MPW program at the University of Southern California. She has taught writing and/or art at the California Institute of the Arts, Cal Tech, Art Center College of Design, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Utah, Pitzer College, and elsewhere.