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Page Hill Starzinger's second poetry collection, Vortex Street (2020), was short-listed for the Grand Prize in Poetry by the Eric Hoffer Award Committee. Her first book, Vestigial (2013), won the Barrow Street Book Prize, selected by Lynn Emanuel. Both are from Barrow Street Press, NYC. Her chapbook, Unshelter (2009), won the Noemi contest, chosen by Mary Jo Bang. Poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Fence, West Branch, Pleiades, Volt, and others. Starzinger was Copy Director at Aveda for almost twenty years, and co-authored A Bouquet from the Met (Abrams, 1998). She was a Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon Review Summer Workshops in 2014 and 2018. She taught a craft class at The Frost Place (Franconia, NH) in 2013 and the Hudson Valley Writers Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY) in 2023. Starzinger lives in New York City.
News
EVENTS
• Sept 28, 2025 Hudson Valley Writers Center Zoom, Celebration for Stanley Plumly
• June 5, 2025 KGB, “Poetry is Bread” anthology launch and reading, NYC
• April 26, 2025 Emma Willard School Reading, Troy, NY
• August 19, 2023 Hudson Valley Writers Center Craft Class, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• May 15, 2023 Emma Willard School Reading, Troy, NY
• March 30, 2023 Grolier Book Shop Reading, Cambridge, MA
• October 3, 2022 Literati Reading, Ann Arbor, MI
• October 2, 2022 Lansing Poetry Club Reading, Lansing, MI
• June 13, 2021 Emma Willard School Alumnae Reunion Closing Ceremony
• June 2, 2021 The Hudson River Writers Center YouTube Reading
• April 15, 2022 Baker-Starzinger Writing Award Reading, UCM
• January 24, 2021 Lit Youngstown YouTube Reading and Conversation
• December 17, 2020 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Poetry Reading
• December 13, 2020 Cultivating Voices Facebook Live Reading
• November 18, 2020 Bennington Writers Facebook Live Reading
• September 21, 2020 KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading with an introduction by Jason Schneiderman
• September 10, 2020 Magers & Quinn Facebook Live Reading
PUBLICATIONS
• Winter 2025 The Slowdown podcast, Maggie Smith host “My Body Knows Its Limits”
• Winter 2025 Autocorrect “I Say to My Unborn Child [Division is swell]”
• November 2025 The Louisville Review “Bring me the Harp”
• Spring/Summer 2025 Revel “I Say to My Unborn Child [I set a mirror]” “Consider the Etymology” “Once Upon a Time”
• July 2025 High Country News “The Cry”
• June 2025 Plume “Mastery” “Idyll” The Poets and Translators Speak
• May 2025 Prairie Schooner “Crux”
• Spring 2025 Sixth Finch “Constellation”
• 2025 The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II, Trinity University Press “Galaxy Filament”
• July 2024 On The Seawall “Phantom State” “About the Pen”
• Summer 2023 Bennington Review “My Body Knows Its Limits”
• June 2022 The New Yorker “Helianthus”
• June 2022 Volt Volume #26 “E, Ellipse” “Ah, Erstaz” “Yonder”
• June 2022 Laurel Review Issue 54.2 “One Way of Looking at It” “Washington Square Park...”
• October 2020 Great River Review Review of Vortex Street
• October 2020 On The Seawall Interview with Page Hill Starzinger
• October 2020 West Branch Issue 93 “I, Eclipse” “Ewe, Et Al.”
• May 2020 On The Seawall Review of Ensō by Shin Yu Pai
• April 2020 On The Seawall Review of Vortex Street
• April 2020 New Pages Review of Vortex Street
• April 2020 The Maynard “Stem of Old French Criestre, To Grow” “Of Stinging Nettle”
• March 2020 Poetry Northwest “Contraction”
• March 2020 Plume Poetry 8, Print Edition “Parable”
• February 2020 Laurel Review “Frauen auf Baumen”
• January 2020 American Poetry Review “My Unborn Child Says to Me” “Galaxy Filament”
• December 2019 Diode Poetry Journal “The Last Day We Were All Together”
• November 2019 On the Seawall Review of Doomstead Days by Brian Teare
• March 2015 Boston Review Review of Vestigial
• March 2014 Plume Interview with Page Hill Starzinger