Margo Taft Stever
photo by Margaret Fox

Margo Taft Stever’s full length collections include The End of Horses (Broadstone Books, 2022), winner of a 2022 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award; Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019) shortlisted with honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; and Frozen Spring (2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry). Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). In 2022, Susana H. Case and Stever edited I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, which was the sole winner of a 2022 Pinnacle Achievement Book Award in the anthology category and was a finalist for the 2022 International Book Award, and the 2022 American Book Fest Award. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including PlumeVerse Daily; “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Academy of American Poets; Prairie SchoonerConnecticut ReviewCincinnati Reviewupstreet; Plant-Human Quarterly; and Salamander. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She also teaches a poetry workshop for at-risk adolescents at Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, New York (www.margotaftstever.com).