Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collections Field Folly Snow and O'Nights, and editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses. She serves on the Board of Directors of Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit organization that supports creative writing programming in Title 1 schools, and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Texas State University. Her third collection of poems, The Seeds, will be published by Alice James Books in 2025.
Her poems appear in A Public Space, The Believer, several editions of Best American Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review. Her essays on literature, personal history, and the environment have appeared in 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth Century Archive, Ecotone, Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Orion.
Portrait by Jessica Attie
