Margaret Gibson 

Author of 13 poetry books and one memoir; editor of upcoming Connecticut poetry anthology; Poet Laureate of Connecticut; won Melville Kane Award, National Book Award, Connnecticut Center for the Book Award, James Boatright Prize, and Pushcart Prize; given National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Individual Artist Grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Teaching Fellowship