Geoffrey Babbitt

Geoffrey Babbitt is the author of Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (Spuyten Duyvil 2018)—a verse-essay, cross-genre project that examines the legend of the Cathach of St. Columba while exploring latent connections between medieval illuminated manuscripts and contemporary poetry—and A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (forthcoming, University of Nevada Press 2025), which won the 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in North American Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Ben Jonson Journal, Notre Dame Review, Washington Square, Guesthouse, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA and PhD from the University of Utah, is an Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing and Writing & Rhetoric at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review and Seneca Review Books, for which he co-founded the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book prize. He lives with his wife and their three children in the Finger Lakes region of New York.