Ange Mlinko

Ange Mlinko is Professor of English at University of Florida, specializing in poetry and creative writing. She holds an M.F.A. from Brown University and B.A. from St. John's College. Mlinko serves as poetry editor for Subtropics and has previously edited for The Nation. She will publish her poetry collection Foxglovewise in January 2025 and critical work Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets in October 2024.

Research interests include contemporary American poetry, lyric criticism, poetic forms, and literary translation. Her scholarly work bridges creative practice and critical analysis, with special attention to eco-poetics, transnational poetics, and feminist revisions of literary tradition.

Recent publications include poems in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and New York Review of Books alongside critical essays examining figures from Emily Dickinson to Rachel Cusk. Her 15 most recent works (2022-2024) demonstrate consistent engagement with poetic craft, translation theory, and feminist reappraisals of literary figures across global traditions.

Major honors include Guggenheim Fellowship, Frederick Bock Prize, Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism, and National Poetry Series selection. She teaches poetry workshops and forms classes to upper-division undergraduates and MFA students.