About CM

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CM Burroughs is author of the poetry collections The Vital System (Tupelo Press, 2012) and Master Suffering (Tupelo Press, 2021), which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. 

Burroughs has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, MacDowell, Djerassi Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Cave Canem. She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to art installations. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies including POETRY magazine, Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, VOLT, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks. 

Burroughs is associate professor of poetry at Columbia College Chicago.