January Gill O’Neil

January Gill O’Neil is the author of Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Rewilding was a finalist for the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize and was recognized by Mass Center for the Book as a notable poetry collection for 2018. From 2012 to 2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. A Cave Canem fellow, O’Neil’s poems and articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and Ecotone, among others. In 2018, O’Neil was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and was named the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence for 2019-2020 at the University of Mississippi, Oxford.

O'Neil is an associate professor of English at Salem State University, a board of trustees member with Montserrat College, and the chair of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs board of directors. O'Neil lives with her two children in Beverly, Massachusetts.