Betsy Fagin
Betsy Fagin is an American poet. She is the author of self-driving, winner of the 2024 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Other publications include Fires Seen From Space ''All is Not Yet Lost, Names Disguised as well as numerous chapbooks including Poverty Rush, the science seemed so solid, Belief Opportunity, Rosemary Stretch, For every solution there is a problem, and a number of self-published chapbooks.
She received degrees in literature and creative writing from Vassar College and CUNY Brooklyn College and completed a Master of Library Science degree in information studies at the University of [Maryland, College Park], where she was an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar. She was named one of Library Journal''s Movers & Shakers in 2012, for her work with The [People's Library] at Occupy Wall Street. Fagin served as Editor for the Poetry Project Newsletter from 2015–2017. She was awarded a workspace writing residency from Lower Manhattan Cultural Center 2012-2013 and a NYSCA/NYFA fellowship in Poetry in 2017.