Kurt Olsson

Kurt Olsson is a poet who was a Peace Corps volunteer and taught in the Ferghana Valley in the late 1990s. He moved to Wisconsin in 2023 to pursue a doctorate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His third poetry collection, The Unnumbered Anniversaries, was published by Fernwood Press in 2025. His earlier book Burning Down Disneyland was published by Gunpowder Press and won the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.