Margo Taft Stever is an American poet, whose poetry collections include ''The End of'' ''Horses'' (Broadstone Books, 2020), winner of the Pinnacle Achievement Award in Poetry, 2022; ''Cracked Piano'' (CavanKerry Press, 2019), shortlisted for Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; ''Ghost Moose'' (Kattywompus Press, 2019); ''The Lunatic Ball'' (Kattywompus Press, 2015); The ''Hudson Line'' (Main Street Rag, 2012); ''Frozen Spring'' (Mid-List Press First Series Award, 2002) and ''Reading the Night Sky'' (Riverstone Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 1996).

Biography

Stever is a graduate of Harvard University, and is a recipient of an Ed.M from the

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, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from

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. Stever co-authored the book ''Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to China'' (Zhejiang University Press, 2012). Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including ''Verse Daily''; '' Prairie Schooner''; ''

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''; “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Academy of American Poets; ''Cincinnati Review''; ''upstreet''; ''Plume''; and ''Salamander''. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She lives in

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