B. K. Fischer

B. K. Fischer is the author of Ceive, a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, and four previous collections of poetry—Radioapocrypha (2018), My Lover’s Discourse (2018), St. Rage’s Vault (2013), and Mutiny Gallery (2011). She is also the author of a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (2016), and her poems and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry International, and elsewhere. She was the inaugural poet laureate of Westchester County, New York, from 2021 to 2023, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2022. She teaches in Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and her newest book of poems, Disaster Porn, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2027.