Bio

Deborah Ager’s first poetry collection is Midnight Voices. Her poems have appeared in journals such as New England Review, The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, New Letters, New South and in the anthologies No Tell Motel and Best New Poets. She received the Tennessee Williams Scholarship and, later, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She’s received additional fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

She’s founding editor and publisher of 32 Poems Magazine and has overseen the magazine since its inception in 2003. Many poems first appearing in 32 Poems have been honored in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.

Ager teaches in the Johns Hopkins graduate creative writing program and codirects the Joaquin Miller Poetry Reading Series in Washington, DC. With John Poch and Bill Beverly, she’s editing the 32 Poems Magazine anthology (forthcoming 2012). She’s also assisting Matthew Silverman with a Jewish American Poetry anthology (forthcoming).

She enjoys creating community and, in 2010, founded the first Twitter poetry community. The first Twitter Poet Party took place on October 24, 2010 with D. A. Powell, Susan Rich, January O’Neill, Kelli Agodon, Collin Kelley, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as co-hosts. Up to 70 people have participated during one of these online events. If you use Twitter and would like to join the conversation, please follow hashtag #poetparty on Sunday nights at 9 pm ET.