Judge for our 2026 Anhinga Prize for Poetry

Karin Gottshall is the author of three award-winning poetry books: Eclipse Season (forthcoming from Conduit), Crocus (Fordham University Press, 2007), and The River Won't Hold You (Ohio State University Press, 2015). She has also published three limited-edition chapbooks with small independent presses. Gottshall's poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Colorado Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Four Way Review, among many other journals. She grew up in Michigan and currently lives in rural Vermont. She teaches at Middlebury College.