Dante Di Stefano is the author of six poetry collections and a chapbook, including, most recently, the book-length poems, The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025) and Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023). His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Writer's Chronicle, and elsewhere. He has won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (UK), and the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, among other awards. He co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People (NYQ Books, 2018). He teaches high school English in Endicott, NY and lives in Endwell, New York with his wife, Christina, their daughter, Luciana, their son, Dante Jr., and their goldendoodle, Sunny.