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 Algebra. Her poetry, poetry translations, collaborative work with visual artists, and articles on the connections between mathematics, history, and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary and mathematical venues. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, and as the poetry reading co-chair of the annual Bridges conferences. She co-edited the poetry anthology, Strange Attractors (CRC Press, 2008), and edits the Bridges Poetry Anthology series. Currently, Sarah works with collage artist Mark Sanders on a poem-collage project involving the history of ancient mathematics.

Website: https://www2.math.uconn.edu/~glaz/
Sample poem: What Can We Do If We Crave Certainty in Mathematics?

Madhur Anand's debut memoir This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut poetry collection A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was named one of 10 all-time trailblazing poetry collections by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Her second poetry collection Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was also a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book.  To Place a Rabbit (2025), her first novel, was named one of the best books of 2025 by both Globe and Mail and CBC. Her books were published with Penguin Random House Canada. Madhur is a professor and the director of the Global Ecological Change and Sustainability Laboratory at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

       
Website: https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/08/10/The-Chat-with-GG-s-Literature-Award-Winner-Madhur-Anand

Sample poem: Hill Country, Old Mercedes, and Parturition

Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya was born in the former Soviet Union and studied physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and philology at Moscow State Humanitarian University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Russian experimental poetry. Tatiana is author of sixteen books in Russian and co-editor of the anthology, Freedom of Restriction. Her poetry in English appeared in: Bridges, London Grip, POEM, Rochford Street Review, and Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. Tatiana teaches courses on the history of mathematics in WEA Sydney and courses of mathematical arts for gifted and talented school students in UNSW. She is in the editorial committee of Articulation and the board of PEN Moscow, and was guest-editor of a Symmetry literary issue. Tatiana organized the Mathematics and Arts seminar, the GolosA Festival of Combinatorial Poetry, and the Symmetry Festival Literary Session.

Sample poem: Triple Creation

Robin Chapman is a poet, painter, and developmental psycho-linguist. Professor Emerita of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Emerita Principal Investigator at the Waisman Center -- where she studied language development in children with Down syndrome -- she is a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Robin co-organized the UW Chaos and Complex Systems seminar (1994-2020), and is author of ten books of poetry, including Panic Season, The Only Home We Know, the eelgrass meadow, One Hundred White Pelicans, Abundance, Six True Things, and, with physicist J.C. Sprott, Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos (World Scientific, 2005). Her awards include the Posner Book Award, the Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Book Award, the Cider Press Editor's Book Award, and the Helen Howe Poetry Award.

Website: http://robinchapmanspoetryandpainting.blogspot.com/

Sample poem: Mary Laycock 

Marian Christie grew up in what is now Zimbabwe. Drawn to both the arts and the sciences, she wrote poetry from an early age, finding inspiration in the southern African landscape. At university she studied applied mathematics and went on to teach mathematics at schools in the Middle East and Scotland. Throughout her teaching career, she sought creative ways to stimulate students' interest and enjoyment in mathematics, particularly through cross-disciplinary projects incorporating the arts and humanities. Now retired from teaching, she lives in the south east of England. Marian's published work includes a collection of essays From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry (Beir Bua Press, 2021), and three books of mathematically themed poetry: Fractal Poems (2021), Triangles (2023), and Sky, Earth, Other (2024), all published by Penteract Press.

Britt Kaufmann is lucky to live in Indiana where she writes in a room of her own. A former English teacher turned math tutor, her most recent collection of poetry Midlife Calculus blends her love of puns, mathematics, and creative expression. Her math poems have appeared in Scientific American, MAA: FOCUS, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and J Journal: New Writing on Justice. The book, inspired by learning calculus for the first time at age 47 so she could cross it off her bucket list, won the 2025 NAIWE Poetry Book Award and received a Silver distinction from the Book Awards at IPNE. She helped found the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival and hosted an open-mic poetry reading for more than a decade. Her pastimes include gardening and reading science fiction -- her next writing adventure.

Sample poem: Midlife Calculus

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.

Iggy McGovern is Fellow Emeritus in Physics at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also a poet, blending formal structure, humour and science. Iggy has published with Dedalus Press three poetry collections: The King of Suburbia (2005), Safe House (2010) and The Eyes of Isaac Newton (2017), and an anthology 20|12: Twenty Irish Poets Respond to Science in Twelve Lines (2012).  A Mystic Dream of 4 (Quaternia Press, 2013) is his verse biography of the nineteenth century Irish mathematician and poet, William Rowan Hamilton. His most recent publication Making Waves (Quaternia Press, 2019) is a verse biography of the Austrian physicist Erwin Schroedinger who was a refugee in Ireland 1939-56. Among his awards are: the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry, the Hennessy Award for Poetry, and The Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary.
 

Website: https://iggymcgovern.com/ 
Sample poem: The Mathematical Barman

Doug Norton is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Villanova University. Doug's first interaction with the math-art community happened when his proposal for a paper session at the 2003 Joint Math Meeting merged with Reza Sarhangi and John Sullivan's proposal. He was pulled in by the dynamo that was Reza, attended Bridges Alhambra 2003, and has been hooked on Bridges ever since. He pulled his first all-nighter in ages in his motel room at Bridges Towson 2012, completing the lyrics for his first Bridges Informal Music Night presentation. Since 2015, he has attended Bridges and presented a new song each year. Whether contrafactum or parody or something else altogether, whether poetry or lyrics, he tries with each piece to capture some sense of the meeting. Doug's lyrics are available at his Bridges website.

Website: https://www.bridgesmathart.org/norton-lyrics/
Sample poem: 2024 Bridges Richmond Lyrics

Tom Petsinis was born in Macedonia and immigrated to Australia as a child. He is a novelist, playwright, poet, and part-time mathematics lecturer at Deakin College, Melbourne. Tom has published ten books of poetry, including Naming the Number, Four Quarters, My Father's Tools, Steles, isolation, and the recent Zero's Whisper (Tantanoola, 2024). His plays include The Drought, Salonika Bound, Hypatia's Circle, Euler's Vision, and Zorba's Last Dance. Among his works of fiction are the novels The Twelfth Dialogue, The French Mathematician, Plato's Number, Quaternia, Fitzroy Raw, and Fog. Forthcoming work includes the novella Chiara's Gown. Tom's work has been translated into a number of languages. His literary honors include the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize, the Wal Cherry Playscript of the Year Award, and a nomination for South Australian Premier's Award.

Website: http://tompetsinis.com/
Sample poem: Magpie Calling

Eveline Pye was an Operational Research Analyst for Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines, in Zambia, and then a Statistics Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, in Scotland. Her mathematical and statistical poetry has been published in a wide range of literary magazines, newspapers and anthologies. In 2011, Significance Magazine, the joint publication of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association featured her work in education and published a selection of her poems as part of their Life in Statistics series. A collection about Zambia, Smoke that Thunders, was published by Mariscat Press in 2015.  A second chapbook, STEAM, contains poems linked to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It was published by Red Squirrel in 2022. Her latest publication, Reaching the Light, explores recovery from a fractured childhood, Seahorse Publications (2024).

Website: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00510.x
Sample poem: Resonance

Jim Wolper is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Idaho State University, and now resides in Portland, Oregon. His mathematical interests lean toward fundamentals: convergence, algebraic geometry, and logic. He has also been a professional pilot, and has written extensively about aviation, including the book Understanding Mathematics for Aircraft Navigation (McGraw-Hill, 2001).  Currently, he is compiling a lyric poem about aerodynamics. For Jim, poetry and mathematics share the goals of seeking to understand the world and expressing what's found in precise language.  Mathematical language is akin to haiku, a poetic form closely tied to nature but exploring new realms: fantasy, non-Archimedean fields, dreams.... Jim's poetry and fiction have appeared in NUNUM, LitShark, The Ekphrastic Review, and others, and his chapbook Misdirections was published in 2025 by Finishing Line Press. He writes about poetic craft at Jim's substack. 

Website: https://jimwolper.substack.com

Sample poem: Changes and Deltas