Maxine Scates is the author of four books of poems: My Wilderness (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming 2021), Undone, Black Loam, and Toluca Street. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, AGNI, Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and have received, among other awards, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and two Pushcart Prizes. She edited, with David Trinidad, Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. (updated 4/2021)