ABOUT DORSEY
Dorsey Craft is the author of the forthcoming collection A Brief History of Accidental Inventions, which will be published in Fall of 2026 by Texas Review Press.
Her first collection, Plunder, won the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize from Bauhan Publishing. She is also the author of a chapbook, The Pirate Anne Bonny Dances the Tarantella, which was a runner-up in the CutBank Chapbook Competition.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Adroit Journal, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, POETRY Magazine, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, Sixth Finch, Southern Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, Willow Springs, and elsewhere.
Dorsey's work has received support from the Anderson Center at Tower View and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She holds a Ph.D in Poetry from Florida State University, an MFA in poetry from McNeese State University and a BA in English from Clemson University. As an undergraduate, she was a Student Director of the 5th and 6th Clemson Literary Festivals. Currently, she teaches at University of North Florida and serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor for AGNI Magazine.
Praise for A Brief History
Forthcoming from TRP 10/01/2026
This book is full of gorgeous perversity. It refuses to bullshit readers with sentimentality... Friends, Dorsey Craft is an audacious, tender, wicked poet.
—Nicky Beer, author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes
PRAISE FOR THE PIRATE ANNE BONNY DANCES THE TARANTELLA:
In her dazzling collection, The Pirate Anne Bonny Dances the Tarantella, Dorsey Craft wields with masterful control, an urgent and textured syntax that turn by turn, spins images of kaleidoscopic genius.
Malena Mörling
SELECTED POEMS
When My Dad Says My Poetry is Pornographic; Adroit Journal, 2025.
Three Poems; Sixth Finch, 2024.
"Instructions on Breastfeeding"; Palette Poetry, 2023.
"Essay Against Metaphor" and "Ode to the Stroller We Bought on Facebook"; Blackbird, 2023.
"Community Theatre Production of Annie, Age 12"; Missouri Review Poem of the Week, 2021.
"When You Are Six"; Muzzle Magazine, 2021.
"My Football Team is Winning"; Boudin--The McNeese Review Online, 2020.
"The Pirate Anne Bonny Does Not Care About Football"; Shenandoah, 2020.
"Root Canal at Twenty-Seven"; Harpur Palate, 2020.
"The Pirate Anne Bonny Advises Jane Eyre"; Poetry Daily, 2019. Originally published in Thrush Poetry Journal.
