Annelyse Gelman

Poet and interdisciplinary artist Annelyse Gelman’s (poetry elective faculty) most recent book, Vexations (University of Chicago Press, 2023), won the 2022 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Gelman is also the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love Is a Stranger to Someone (Write Bloody, 2014), and the experimental pop EP About Repulsion (Fonograf Editions, 2019), as well as the artist’s book POOL (Neck Press, 2020). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Best New Zealand Poetry, Harper’s Magazine, BOMB Magazine, the PEN Poetry Series, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and exhibited internationally. Gelman also founded and directs Midst, an app and digital publishing platform focused on capturing, saving, and sharing the writing process.