Alice Quinn

Alice Quinn has been teaching at Columbia University’s School of the Arts since 1990. She was executive director of the Poetry Society of America from 2001-2018 and poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007. Earlier in her career she was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, where she established The Knopf Poetry Series. She is the editor of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop and The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses, with a foreword by Billy Collins.