Gillian Conoley’s collections include Profane Halo (Wave Books, 2005); Lovers in the Used World (Carnegie Mellon,2001); Beckon (Carnegie Mellon, 1996); Tall Stranger (Carnegie Mellon, 1991), finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award; and Some Gangster Pain (Carnegie Mellon, 1987). A recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, several Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts award, and a Fund for Poetry Award, she is professor and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt. Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in W.W. Norton's American Hybrid, Scribner's Best American Poetry, Fence's Best of Fence, Counterpath's Lyric Postmodernisms, and the Italian anthology, Nuova Poesia Americana, published by Oscar Mondadori.
Listen to a radio interview, in which she reads from and discusses Profane Halo.
Read some of Gillian's poems online in
Jubilat 7
The Academy of American Poets
Jacket 16 & Jacket 27
Slope 15
Gillian edits Volt Magazine
Read an interview in Las Vegas City Life.
An interview between Tod Marshall and Gillian appears in Marshall's collection, Range of the Possible: Conversations with Contemporary Poets, available from Eastern Washington University Press. Below, you can download excerpts in .pdf format.
See erasure poems by Gillian at Omnidawn Blog.
reviews of Gillian Conoley's work:
Jacket Magazine — 04/01/2006
Publishers Weekly — 04/01/2005