B.K. Fischer is a writer and teacher living in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

B.K. Fischer is the author of Ceive (BOA Editions), a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, and four previous collections of poetry—Radioapocrypha (Mad Creek, Ohio State UP, 2018), My Lover’s Discourse (Tinderbox Editions, 2018), St. Rage’s Vault (The Word Works, 2013), and Mutiny Gallery (Truman State UP, 2011). She is also the author of a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (2006).

Her poems and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Boston Review, Jacket2, FIELD, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Studies and elsewhere. She holds a BA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University.

A former poetry editor of Boston Review, she teaches The Comma Sutra, a cross-genre seminar on grammar and syntax for creative practice, in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westchester County from 2021-2023, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2022.