Sarah Glaz's poetry collection, Ode to Numbers (Antrim House, 2017) was a finalist for both Next Generation Indie Book Awards and Book Excellence Awards. Sarah is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut specializing in the mathematical area of Commutative Ring Theory. Her poetry, poetry translations, collaborative work with visual artists, and articles on the connections between mathematics and poetry appeared in a variety of literary and mathematical journals, edited volumes, and anthologies. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, for which she guest-edited the special issue Poetry and Mathematics. She co-edited the poetry anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (CRC Press, 2008), and as the coordinator of the poetry readings at the annual Bridges conferences, she edits the Bridges Poetry Anthologies.
 

Susan Gerofsky is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Environmental Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her interdisciplinary research is in embodied, multisensory, multimodal mathematics education through the arts, movement, gesture and voice. She works in curriculum studies, environmental garden-based education, the language and genres of mathematics education, and media theory. Dr. Gerofsky is academic advisor and co-founder of the UBC Orchard Garden, a student-led campus learning garden. She is active as a poet, playwright, musician and filmmaker, and also works with dance and fiber arts. You'll often find her cycling around town with a baritone horn or an accordion. Susan contributed to the award-winning book, Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place (Vernon Press, 2017) and has a verse play, Kepler: A Renaissance Folk Play, published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (2018).

       
Website: https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/susan-gerofsky/

Sample poem: Glided, gilded and Barely, bleary

Luisa A. Igloria authored Caulbearer (Immigrant Writing Series Prize, Black Lawrence Press; forthcoming 2024), Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Co-Winner, 2019 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Prize), The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (2018), 12 other books, and 4 chapbooks. She co-edited Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the U.S. (Paloma Press, 2023), offered as a companion to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). Originally from Baguio City, Philippines, she makes her home in Norfolk, VA where she is the Louis I. Jaffe and University Professor of English and Creative Writing at Old Dominion University's MFA Creative Writing Program. Luisa is the twentieth Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020 - 2022), Emerita. During her term, the Academy of American Poets awarded her a 2021 Poet Laureate Fellowship.
 
Website: https://www.luisaigloria.com/  

Sample poem: Infinity is not a number

Gizem Karaali is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She earned a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. Her mathematical research lies in the areas of representation theory, super quantum groups, and algebraic combinatorics. Her scholarly interests include humanistic mathematics, quantitative literacy, and social justice implications of mathematics and mathematics education. Gizem is a founding editor of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics and a senior editor of Numeracy. She has organized panels, paper sessions, and poetry readings, and presented invited addresses to diverse audiences. She received a National Security Agency Young Investigator Award (2011 - 2013), served as chair of SIGMAA-QL (2017 - 2020), and is a Sepia Dot (2006 Project NExT fellow). Gizem enjoys traveling, reading and writing, and hanging out with friends and family.

Sample poem: A mother's math is never done 

Lisa Lajeunesse is a professor of Mathematics at Capilano University in North Vancouver. As an undergraduate, she studied mathematics and music. Before embarking on graduate studies in mathematics, she worked for ten years with Telesat Canada on the launch and control of Canada's communication satellites. At Capilano University, she has developed and taught courses on the connections between mathematics and the arts to reach out to non-science students, and to express her lifelong passion for creative writing, music and other art forms. During a sabbatical in 2016/2017 she wrote a textbook for these courses, which prompted her to attend Bridges for the first time. Since then, she has adapted popular logic puzzles to encode poetry so that the solving of each puzzle unlocks a poem. A sample of Lisa's poetry may be found her website.

Website: https://lisalajeunessepoetry.wordpress.com/  
Sample poem: Strong mathematical induction

Marco Lucchesi,  Professor of Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist and translator. Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2011, Marco served as its president from 2018 to 2021. He is former editor-in-chief of the journal, Revista Brasileira, and the poetry magazine, Poesia Sempre, and the current president of the National Library of Brazil. His publications include over twenty-five award winning books and works of translation, among others Novos Poemas Reunidos [New Collected Poems], Hinos Matematicos [Mathematical Hymns], and translations of Rumi, Khlebnikov, and Rilke. His work has been widely anthologized and translated into more than ten languages. His literary honors include the Jabuti Prize, the Romanian Latin Prize, the Ministry of Italian Culture Prize, and Alceu Amoroso Lima, a lifetime achievement award in poetry. 

Sample poem: Nascita di Venere

E. R. Lutken's collection Manifold: poetry of mathematics (3: A Taos Press, 2021) won the New Mexico First Book Award 2022. By training, Emily Lutken is a family physician. She graduated from Duke University, and U.T. Southwestern Medical School. After residency, she worked in urban emergency rooms, then with International Medical Corps teaching and caring for refugees, and for the majority of her career on the Navajo Nation. After retiring from medicine, she taught middle and high school science and mathematics in rural Colorado for six more years, and developed an interest in cross-curricular activities with the humanities. Now she spends time writing poetry, and fishing in the swamps of Louisiana and mountain streams of New Mexico. Her poems often involve science and mathematics, and have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies.
                                                                                                      
Website: https://www.erlutkenpoetry.com/  
Sample poem: Emmy Noether and the conservation of hope

Alice Major's twelveth collection of poetry is Knife on Snow (Turnstone Press, 2023). Along with poetry, she is also an essayist, and her book, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, has been awarded the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for non-fiction. Her interest in mathematics began at the age of twelve, when she was introduced to non-Euclidean geometry in one of Martin Gardner's books.  Ever since, like Percy Bysshe Shelley, she turns to math and science "to replenish my store of metaphor." Among her other writing awards are the 2017 Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta. She has been president of the League of Canadian Poets, first poet laureate for her home city of Edmonton (Canada), and is the founder of the Edmonton Poetry Festival.                                                                                                        

Website: https://www.alicemajor.com 
Sample poem: Three-body problem

Kaz Maslanka received a BFA in Sculpture from Wichita State University, where he also studied music, mathematics and physics. He has been involved in the arts for over 50 years and has been pioneering mathematical visual poetry since the early 1980's. He maintains a strong international presence on his blog "Mathematical Poetry" and with exhibitions of his work. Among Kaz's awards and recognitions is a nomination for a Pushcart prize in poetry, and the appearance of a poem in the 2020 'Page A Day' calendar published by the AMS. He lives in San Diego, California, and serves as curator for the San Diego based "Sonic Arts Studio," a group of composers and musicians devoted to microtonal music. He also served on the advisory board of the Bronowski Art and Science Forum in Del Mar, California. 

Dan May is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, where he enjoys spending the majority of his time teaching all levels of undergraduate mathematics to primarily math education majors. In the gaps of that teaching load, he explores connections between mathematics and poetry. He is grateful for this community of mathematical poets who engage in similar pursuits. He also thinks about the combinatorics of card games such as Set and Spot It. Dan spends his summers working with Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), a mathematics enrichment program for under-served public middle school students in New York City and Los Angeles. Dan also moonlights as a musicologist, and has presented several seminar talks on a variety of musical genres at his university.

Website: https://talkingwriting.com/daniel-may-poem
Sample poem: Eight minutes

The winner of the 2021 Juana Goergen Poetry Prize for his poem Sueno de la cercania, Pedro Poitevin has published six books, among them Letras Griegas (Praxis, 2022), Icaro hace piruetas en las nubes (Urania, 2023), and Nowhere at Home (Penteract Press, 2023). The author of more than ten million palindromic sonnets, a sonnetina, the shortest decima, the shortest pangram, and a number of enciphered sonnets, and widely known as a leading contemporary experimental poet in the Spanish language, Poitevin occasionally writes in English as well. Among his most noteworthy experiments is his poem A Doomsday Prayer for the Polluting Ape, which can be said to be the longest sonnet in the world. A logician and functional analyst by training, he is Associate Professor of mathematics at Salem State University.

Website: https://pedropoitevin.com
Sample poem: I feel the memory of writing you

Stephanie Strickland's ten books of poetry include How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected (2019) and Ringing the Changes (2020), a code-generated project for print based on the ancient art of tower bell-ringing. Others are True North, Dragon Logic, and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. Her twelve collaborative works of digital literature include Liberty Ring!; slippingglimpse, which maps text to Atlantic wave patterns; House of Trust, an homage to free public libraries; and Ours/Hours of the Night, an MP4 PowerPoint poem probing age and sleep. Strickland's digital poems have been featured at the Library of Congress and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Her work across print and multiple media is being collected by Duke University. In 2023 she was awarded the Lifetime Career Achievement Award by the Electronic Literature Organization.

Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Strickland
Sample poem: The infinite stops between our fingers