Margo Taft Stever
Margo Taft Stever is an American poet, whose poetry collections include "Cracked Piano" (CavanKerry Press, 2019); "Ghost Moose" (Kattywompus Press, 2019); "The Lunatic Ball" (Kattywompus Press, 2015); The "Hudson Line" (Main Street Rag, 2012); "Frozen Spring" (Mid-List Press First Series Award, 2002) and "Reading the Night Sky" (Riverstone Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 1996). Biography. Stever is a graduate of Harvard University, and is a recipient of an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Stever co-authored the book "Looking East: William Howard Taft and  the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to China" (Zhejiang University Press, 2012). Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including "Verse Daily"; "Prairie Schooner"; "Connecticut Review"; “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Academy of American Poets; "Cincinnati Review"; "upstreet"; "Plume"; and "Salamander". She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York.