Corey Van Landingham

Corey Van Landingam (she/her) is a writer originally from Ashland, Oregon. Her books include Reader, I (Sarabande Books, 2024); Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Levis Reading Prize; and Antidote (The Ohio State University Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Prize.

Van Landingham earned a BA at Lewis & Clark College, an MFA from Purdue University, and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and she teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Van Landingham writes yearly poetry reviews in her role as a West Branch contributing editor, and is currently the poetry editor of Ninth Letter.