Michelle Whittaker is an American poet of West Indian heritage and the author of Surge which was awarded a finalist medal for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (great weather for Media). She has been published in places such as New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Shenandoah, Upstreet, Pank Magazine and received a Pushcart special mention, Cave Canem fellowship and New York Foundation of Arts fellowship in poetry. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the program in writing and rhetoric at Stony Brook University.

Image description: Michelle Whittaker wears a black coat and red nail polish.