Bio

Pete Follansbee’s poem “The Heron Returns from Winter” was a finalist in New Millennium‘s 49th annual poetry contest, as was his poem “Rug” in the New Guard Review‘s 2019 Knightville Poetry Contest. “Simple Flesh,” a poem about past civil wars in the Middle East, won honorable mention in a past Georgetown Review poetry contest. While Pete has had poems published in The North American Review and Beyond Words, a journal out of Berlin, Germany, perhaps more notable are recent poems published online: “Big Bang,” on Barrow Street’s online 4×2 Project: “Four-Year-Old-Child, Falling”  (poem number 4) in the January 2020 issue of 8 Poems; “Dark Heart,” at the About Place Journal (in Vol V, Issue IV “Infinite Country”), about the tragic Charlottesville alt-right demonstrations of 2017; and “Fuck the Politics,” is still online with The Atticus Review. An MFA graduate from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Pete was a T.A. for Virginia Poet Laureate, Tim Seibles, at the summer 2017 edition of The Writer’s Hotel and a Faculty Assistant for their 2021 Virtual Poetry Weekend. After growing up in New England, Pete and his family reside in Richmond, Virginia.