Jerry Mirskin

Jerry Mirskin was born in the Bronx, New York, and has lived in California, Wisconsin, and Maine. He has worked as a herdsman on a dairy farm, as a carpenter, and as an educator with New York State Poet-in-the-Schools. He is the author of the poetry collections Picture a Gate Hanging Open and Let that Gate be the Sun (Mammoth, 2002) and In Flagrante Delicto (2008), and Crepuscular Non Driveway (2014). His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and he has presented his work and given workshops at universities, colleges, public libraries, art centers, and on public television and radio.  Mirskin was the winner of the Mammoth Books prize for poetry and winner of the 2013 Arts & Letters Prime Poetry Prize. An essay about Mirskin’s work, written by the poet Howard Nelson, was featured in The Hollins Critic (June 2016). Mirskin is currently a professor at Ithaca College.