Dante Di Stefano

Dante Di Stefano is the author of five poetry collections and a chapbook, including, most recently, The Widowing Radiance, published in 2025 which we will be discussing today. His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Writer's Chronicle, and elsewhere. He's also won many poetry awards including, but not limited to, Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the On Teaching Poem Prize, and the Manchester Poetry Prize. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Binghamton University. He teaches high school English in Endicott, NY and lives in Endwell, New York with his Wife, daughter, son, and their goldendoodle.