Dante Di Stefano's awards include the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, The Red Hen Press Poetry Award, The Crab Orchard Review's Special Issue Feature Award in Poetry, The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, The Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, The Phyllis Smart-Young Prize in Poetry, The Bea González Prize in Poetry, and an Academy of American Poets College Prize. He is a correspondent for The Best American Poetry Blog and the poetry book review editor for Arcadia. He earned his PhD in Poetry from Binghamton University and he lives in Endwell, New York.