ANNE BOYER

Anne Boyer is a U.S. poet and essayist and the inaugural winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Boyer’s other books include The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffee House 2008), My Common Hert (Spooky Girlfriend 2011), and the 2016 CLMP Firecracker award-winning Garments Against Women (U.S., Ahsahta 2015; U.K, Mute 2016) which Maureen McLane described in The New York Times as “a sad, beautiful, passionate book that registers the political economy of literature and of life itself.” Boyer is now in the final stages of a book called The Undying, forthcoming from Farrar, Strauss, Giroux in August 2019. She lives in Kansas City, where she is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute.