POET. EDITOR. EDUCATOR.

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.

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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 Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Daily, 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.