Janet McAdams

Of Scottish, Irish, and Creek (Muscogee) ancestry, Janet McAdams is the author of The Island of Lost Luggage (2000), which won the Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and an American Book Award in poetry. She is the author of the poetry collection, Feral (2007), and a chapbook Seven Boxes for the Country After (2016). McAdams is also the author of the novel Red Weather (2012). 

She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama and her PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University. She taught at Kenyon College as the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry and is an editor-at-large for Kenyon Review. Her poems have been widely published in such magazines as Poetry, the North American Review, the Kenyon Review, the Women’s Review of Books, and TriQuarterly. In 2005, she founded the award-winning Earthworks Poetry Series for Salt Publishing in the UK.