Writer Mother Monster: Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard. Her most recent books are After Callimachus, poems and translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). A chapbook of poems about superheroes and other pop culture figures will appear from Rain Taxi this summer, and another full-length collection of poems from Graywolf in late 2022. She’s also at work on an anthology of queer and proto-queer poems from before the 20th century, with the critic, scholar and musician Drew Daniel, and, as part of a fan collective, on a book about the X-Men. Stephanie has two children ages 11 and 15, and she describes writer-motherhood in three words as: "Busy. Conflicted. Resourceful."

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