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 chair for the annual Bridges conferences. She coedited 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.

Madhur Anand's debut memoir This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (Strange Light/Penguin Random House Canada, 2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, named one of 10 all-time trailblazing poetry collections by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was published to international acclaim and named the top-pick for Spring poetry by the CBC. Both poetry collections were published with McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.

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

Sample poem: A Simple Note

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.

Sample poem: View No Fiery Night

Carol Dorf has received fellowships from the Hawthornden Foundation, Zoeglossia, and Napa Valley Writers' Conference, as well as "Best of the Net" and "Best Microfiction" nominations. She is fascinated by the boundaries between disciplines, particularly mathematics and poetry. Carol was founding poetry editor of Talking Writing where she wrote about issues in contemporary poetry, and edited several issues on mathematical poetry, science poetry, and technology poetry. For many years, she taught high school mathematics, and led poetry workshops as a California-Poet-in-the-Schools at Berkeley City College and other art venues. She brought her loves together by introducing poetry into the mathematics classroom and by teaching poetry writing to mathematics teachers. Her writing appears on the Poetry Foundation website, in several chapbooks, and in journals that include "Pleiades," "About Place," "Cutthroat," "Five South," and "Scientific American." 

Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161837/spring-again-659d71bbecee9

Sample poem: Overlapping Definitions of Infinity 

Anthony Etherin is an experimental formalist poet and musician who specializes in working under strict procedural constraints. The inventor of several new literary restrictions, including the aelindrome, his poetry also combines traditional poetic forms with established alphabetical constraints, such as palindromes and anagrams. Etherin's work, in general, explores the range of poetic form, from the simple to the complex, and from the classical to the radical.  Similarly constrained, Etherin's recent musical projects include musical palindromes and a sequence of pangrams, whose melodies use all twelve notes of the chromatic scale. Knit Ink (and Other Poems), an omnibus edition of his poetry, written over a ten-year period, was published in 2024 by Deep Vellum. He lives on the border of England and Wales. Find him on X @Anthony_Etherin, and on Bluesky @anthonyetherin.

Lisa Lajeunesse is a professor of Mathematics at Capilano University in North Vancouver. Between her undergraduate and graduate studies, 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 poetry, creative writing, music and other art forms. During a sabbatical she wrote a textbook for these courses, which prompted her to attend Bridges for the first time. Since then, she has been inspired by the community of Bridges poets to include more mathematics in her poetry. Recently, she's become preoccupied with poetic forms that use the golden ratio. A sample of Lisa's poetry is found on her website.

Sample poem: Proof by Example

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 underserved 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 19^th 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: John Graves (Mathematician)

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 Meetings 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://pedropoitevin.com/
Sample poem: Upon Inspecting the Mandelbrot Set

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: Three

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: To Goedel