Judith Vollmer's seventh book of poetry, The Pavese Stone, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2026. The Sound Boat: New and Selected Poems, was awarded the 2022 University of Wisconsin Press Four Lakes Prize; other collections have been awarded the Brittingham, the Cleveland State, and the Center for Book Arts publication prizes. Reactor was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and featured in The Los Angeles Times Book Review. The Door Open to the Fire received finalist honors for the Paterson Prize.Vollmer is recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; and artist residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo, the American Academy in Rome, Blue Mountain Center, and the Centrum Foundation, among others. Her poetry, reviews, and essays have been published in Plume, Rhino, Barrow Street, The Georgia Review, The Women’s Review of Books, Agni, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She is Professor Emerita of the University of Pittsburgh/Greensburg, and recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of Pittsburgh. For three decades Vollmer co-edited the international poetry journal 5 AM. Her essay on Baudelaire, “The Stroll and Preparation for Departure,” is included in the Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire (Cambridge University Press). She has read her work internationally at colleges, universities, museum and galleries, arts organizations, and community centers. Vollmer has taught in low residency programs at New England College’s MFA in Poetry, the Drew University Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation, and most recently in Carlow University’s MFA Program. She lives in Pittsburgh’s Nine Mile Run watershed.

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