CARYL PAGEL is the author of three books of poetry—Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press, fall 2022), Twice Told (University of Akron Press), and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death (Factory Hollow Press)—as well as a collection of essays, Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2), and three chapbooks: Paul Revere’s (Essay Press), Mausoleum (WinterRed Press), and Visions, Crisis Apparitions, and Other Exceptional Experiences (Factory Hollow Press).
Pagel’s writing has appeared in AGNI, Brick, Conduit, echoverse, The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, New American Writing, and The Paris Review, among other journals. She is the recipient of grants and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, and the Ohio Arts Council.
Pagel was born in Waterloo, Iowa and grew up in southeast Wisconsin and the Chicagoland area. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MFAs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taught creative writing, literature, composition, and humanities courses at The University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Carthage College, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Columbia College Chicago.
Pagel is an associate professor at Cleveland State University, where she teaches poetry and nonfiction in the NEOMFA program. She is a publisher and editor at Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
She’s currently working on a book-length essay about the writer Lorine Niedecker and Niedecker’s relationship to regional politics, the Great Lakes, small press publishing, humor, and reading.
CONTACT: carylpagel@gmail.com