Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi is an American poet, essayist, editor, and teacher born in 1959 in Alma, Michigan. He holds a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo and has taught at Amherst College since 2001, while serving as poetry editor for The Nation and editor for Conjunctions. His 2023 collection Fierce Elegy won the 2024 TS Eliot Prize.