Maggie Dietz was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and educated at Northwestern University and Boston University. She is author of the poetry collections That Kind of Happy and Perennial Fall, which won New Hampshire's Jane Kenyon Award. Dietz was the founding director of the Favorite Poem Project, created by former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, and is co-editor of three anthologies related to the project. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Phillips Exeter Academy, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and Jentel Arts in Wyoming. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Salmagundi, The Threepenny Review and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in New Hampshire with her family.