Bio

Arielle Greenberg is the author of five poetry collections: Come Along with Me to the Pasture Now (Agape Editions, 2021), I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems (Four Way Books, 2020),  Slice (Coconut Books, 2015), My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002). She also has two chapbooks Shake Her (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012) and Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). Her creative nonfiction book Locally Made Panties came out in 2016 from Ricochet Editions, an imprint of Goldline Press. She is also co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of the hybrid genre nonfiction book Home/Birth: A Poemic (1913 Press, 2011).

She is co-editor of four poetry anthologies: with Rachel Zucker, Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, which centers around personal essays by young women poets on their living female mentors (Iowa, 2008) and Starting Today: Poems from Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa, 2010); and with Lara Glenum, Gurlesque, based on a theory Arielle originated (Saturnalia, 2010; new edition forthcoming).

Her poems have been included the 2004 and 2005 editions of Best American Poetry and a number of other anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers (Sarabande, 2006), and she is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and other awards. A translated volume of her selected poetry is out in German from LuxBooks. She wrote a column on contemporary American poetics for the American Poetry Review and was the poetry editor for the journal Black Clock, served as a contributing editor for the Spoon River Poetry Review and Aster(ix), was a founder and former co-editor of the journal Court Green, and is the founder-moderator of the poet-moms listserv. Her poems and creative nonfiction have been published widely, and she is a contributing editor for the chapter on pregnancy loss for the 40th anniversary edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Another scholarly interest is American subcultures and countercultures, and she is editor of a college reader, Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006).

From 2015 to 2018, she was the editor of a series of essays for The Rumpus called (K)ink: Writing while Deviant. In 2023, Beacon Press will publish her nonfiction book, Superfreaks: on Kink, Perversion and Pleasure.

She left an Associate Professor position in the poetry program at Columbia College Chicago in 2011 to move to Maine with her family. She currently works for a brand agency that specializes in helping nonprofits while also teaching part-time and working as a private editor and consultant to creative writers and visual artists.