Chase Twichell

1950 –
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Chase Twichell was born on August 20, 1950, in New Haven, Connecticut. She received a BA from Trinity College and an MFA from the University of Iowa.

Twichell’s numerous books of poetry include The World It Was (Copper Canyon Press, 2026); Things As It Is (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010); Dog Language (Copper Canyon Press, 2005); The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press, 1998); The Ghost of Eden (Ontario Review Press, 1995); Perdido (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991); The Odds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986); and Northern Spy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981). She also coedited The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach (HarperCollins, 1992) with Robin Behn.

Twichell has won awards from the Artists Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Twichell has taught at Princeton University, Goddard College, Warren Wilson College, University of Alabama, and Hampshire College. In 1999, she founded Ausable Press. From 1986 to 1988, Twichell coedited the Alabama Poetry Series, published by University of Alabama Press. From 1976 to 1984, she worked at Pennyroyal Press. 

Twichell lives in Keene, New York, where she once lived with her late husband, the poet and novelist Russell Banks.