Margot Wizansky’s chapbook, Wild for Life, a chronicle in poems of her near-death and the coma that followed, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books (2022). The Yellow Sweater, a full-length poetry collection, was published by Kelsay Books (2023).
Her poems have appeared online and in many journals such as The American Journal of Poetry, The Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Ruminate, River Styx, Cimarron, and elsewhere. She edited the anthologies Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House and Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains and co-edited What the Poem Knows: A Tribute to Barbara Helfgott Hyett.
She was awarded two residencies, one with Writers@Work in Salt Lake City and one with Carlow University in Sligo, Ireland at the Isle of Innisfree. Margot has retired from a career developing housing for adults with disabilities. She lives in Massachusetts.
Paperback: 92 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (May 27, 2025)