Needlework

Campbell McGrath is the author of twelve books of poetry, among them Fever of Unknown Origin (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, the op-ed page of The New York Times, and over seventy-five anthologies. McGrath has received the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA Knight Fellowship, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. He teaches at Florida International University, where he is the Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing and a Distinguished University Professor of English. (updated 4/2026)