Crawford, Virginia

Virginia Crawford, Poet in Residence with the Maryland State Arts Council, teaches through the Artists-in-Education program. Her first collection of poems, “Touch,” appeared March 2011, from Finishing Line Press and was featured on WYPR’s Maryland Morning. Her poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Mas Tequila Review, The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics and others. Ms. Crawford is a graduate of Emerson College, Boston, and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She is co-editor of Poetry Baltimore, poems about a city and an anthology of student poetry, “Voices Fly,” with Laura Shovan, which will appear in spring 2012 from CityLitPress.