Ange Mlinko

Ange Mlinko (born Philadelphia) is an American poet. The author of four books of poetry, she is currently an associate professor in the English department at the University of Florida. She was the poetry editor for The Nation^[1] from 2013-2016. John Ashbery said of her collection Starred Wire, “A fine-grained light like that of a nineteenth-century Danish landscape painting shimmers throughout these gorgeously tactile and tactful poems." Her most recent book, Marvelous Things Overheard, was published in September 2013 by FS&G, and she is currently the editor of Subtropics, the literary publication at the University of Florida.

Life

Mlinko was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1969. She graduated from Conestoga High School, St. John's College and Brown University. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2014-15. Her work has appeared in Granta, The London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Nation,^[1] Paris Review, Parnassus and Poetry Magazine.

Awards

• 2004 National Poetry Series winner
• 2005 James Laughlin Award finalist
• 2009 Randall Jarrell Award^[2][3]
• "Marvelous Things Overheard" selected by Dan Chiasson as one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2013
• 2014-15 Guggenheim Fellow

Works

• "Captivity". The Nation. August 2016. 
• "All Artists Are Dogs". Poetry Foundation. November 2015. 
• "Supercell". The New Yorker. October 2015. 
• "Bliss Street". The New Yorker. October 2010. 
• "Treatment". The New Yorker. May 2009. 
• "Gallimaufry". Poetry. June 2007. 
• "It Was a Bichon Frisé's Life . . .". Poetry. June 2008. 
• "Kouign Amann". Poetry. June 2009. 
• "The Grind". Poetry. September 2012. 
• "Win-Win". Poetry. June 2009. 
• Marvelous Things Overheard, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
• Shoulder Season, Coffee House Press, 2010.
• Starred Wire. Coffee House Press. 2005. 
• Matinées, Zoland Books, 1999.

References

• "Mlinko at the Poetry Foundation".