Gillian Conoley is an American poet, translator, and editor. Born in Austin, Texas and raised in Taylor, a small town where her mother and father operated a country western radio station, Conoley attended SMU and later worked as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is a professor and poet-in-residence at Sonoma State University, and the founder and editor of Volt. She has taught as a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, University of Denver, Texas State University, Tulane University, Vermont College of the Arts and the University of New Orleans.
Conoley’s work has been anthologized widely, appearing in American Hybrid, Norton Anthology of Postmodern Poetry, Nuova Poesia Americana (Italy), The Body Electric: The Best Poetry from The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry and others. Her most recent book, Peace, was named a finalist for the LA Times Book Award in 2014. Her translation of three books by Henri Michaux was named one of the “Top Ten Poetry Books of 2014” by Publishers’ Weekly. Conoley was awarded the Shelley Memorial Award in Poetry for lifetime achievement in 2017 from the Poetry Society of America. Her eighth book, A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems, was published in October 2019.
