Annie Finch Writer

Annie Finch (born 1956) is an American poet, writer, critic, playwright, teacher, and entrepreneur. In the title essay of her book The Body of Poetry, Finch connects her poetry's frequent thematic focus on nature and the body, and also its attention to pattern and sound, with her earth-centered spirituality. The Dictionary of Literary Biography names her "one of the central figures in contemporary American poetics." Her writings about poetry frequently focus on form, meter, and rhythm and on women's poetic traditions. She has also published creative nonfiction and cultural criticism, much of it on the topic of women's spirituality.