January Gill O'Neil
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January Gill O'Neil

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January Gill O’Neil is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road won the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize in poetry from the Boston Authors Club; was a finalist for the New England Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and the Julie Suk Award; is a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award; and a finalist for the Library of Virginia’s 2025 Virginia Literary Awards. From 2012 to 2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Sierra, and more. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” won a 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O’Neil was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. January earned her BA from Old Dominion University and her MFA from New York University. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, and chairs the AWP Board of Directors (2022–2025). She also runs the Thursday Poets Reading Series at GALA Arts in Lynn, Massachusetts, with Jennifer Martelli and Kathi Aguero.
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