Born in Norfolk, Virginia, January Gill O'Neil is the author of four collections from CavanKerry Press: Underlife (2009), Misery Islands (2014), Rewilding (2018), and Glitter Road (2024), which received the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University and an MFA from New York University. A Cave Canem fellow, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival from 2012 to 2018 and is a former chair of the AWP Board of Directors. She teaches at Salem State University.
