Wendy Battin is the author of In the Solar Wind (Doubleday), a Selection of the National Poetry Series, and Little Apocalypse (Ashland Poetry), winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies and journals such as Poetry, The Nation, Field, Threepenny Review, and Yale Review. She's taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College, and most recently at the Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies. She's also a yoga teacher and Director of the Contemporary American Poetry Archive.
She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and has been a fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
She was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1953 and holds degrees from Cornell
University and the graduate writing program at U. of Washington. She now
lives in Mystic, Connecticut, with her husband, poet and jazz guitarist
Charles O. Hartman. When they can manage it, they're in Greece,
teaching in Athens or writing on Aegina.
