Spring Ulmer

Spring Ulmer is a poet, prose writer, and translator raised in Vermont. She holds MFA degrees in poetry from the University of Arizona and in nonfiction from the University of Iowa. Her poetry collections include Phantom Number (Tupelo Press, 2025) and Bestiality of the Involved (Etruscan Press, 2022). She translated Yannis Ritsos's Exercises, 1950–1960 for Ugly Duckling Presse. Ulmer is a visiting assistant professor of English at Middlebury College and has received a 2020 NEA Translation Fellowship and the 2016 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. She is also writing a monograph, The Agency of the Missing, forthcoming from Routledge.