Dawn Potter directs poetry and teaching programs at Monson Arts and offers online poetry classes via The Poetry Kitchen. She led poetry and teaching programs at the Frost Place for more than a decade and has served as a visiting writer at the Solstice MFA Program, Smith College, Endicott College, and many other institutions. When not teaching, she works as a manuscript consultant and as a freelance editor for literary and academic presses.
Dawn is the author or editor of ten books of prose and poetry--most recently, the poetry collection Calendar. She was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and her memoir, Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton, won a Maine Literary Award in Nonfiction. Dawn has received grants and fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Writer's Center, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, the Sewanee Review, the Threepenny Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and many other journals.
Dawn lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, the photographer Thomas Birtwistle.
