Michelle Taransky's second collection of poems, Sorry Was In The Woods is that landscape where perspective is not singular, where waiting, worrying, watching, and recording are able to both arrange and derange our understanding of place.
A graduate of The University of Chicago and The Iowa Writers Workshop, MICHELLE TARANSKY lives in Philadelphia and is a member of the Critical Writing Faculty at University of Pennsylvania. She is Reviews Editor for Jacket2 and a regular guest on the poetry podcast series, "PoemTalk," a collaboration between Kelly Writers House and The Poetry Foundation. Taransky has also taught writing at University of Iowa, Rutgers University in Camden, and Temple University, and worked as an arts administrator at literary arts organizations including The Poetry Center of Chicago, The International Writing Program, The Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania, and Flying Object in South Hadley, MA. Since 2007, Taransky and Emily Pettit have coordinated the Whenever We Feel Like It reading series, which is archived on PennSound. Taransky's poems have been anthologized in The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press 2012), Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat/Telephone 2012), Disco Prairie Social Aid and Pleasure Club (Factory Hollow, 2010) and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry For The New Century (Cracked Slab, 2007). With her father, architect and artist Richard Taransky, she co-authored the chapbook The Plans Caution, published by QUEUE books. Brave Men Press published No, I Will Be In The Woods in 2011.
