Terrance Hayes, Nancy Krygowski and Jeffrey McDaniel, who have served as interim editors of the Pitt Poetry Series since 2021, have now been named to the post permanently

The three writers stepped in when Ed Ochester retired after more than four decades at the helm of the series. Together they select and advise the University of Pittsburgh Press on the hundreds of poetry manuscripts submitted for possible publication.

Hayes’s poetry collections include “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” a finalist for the National Book Award; “How to Be Drawn,” a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and “Lighthead,” winner of the National Book Award and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes is currently professor of English at New York University.

Krygowski’s book “Velocity” won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize in 2006 and her most recent poetry collection is “The Woman in the Corner.” She teaches poetry in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic program.

McDaniel is the author of six books of poetry, most recently “Holiday in the Islands of Grief.” Other books include “Chapel of Inadvertent Joy,” “The Endarkenment” and “The Splinter Factory.” He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in the Hudson Valley.