January Gill O'Neil: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-6-2025
Location
University Theatre, Old Dominion University
Author/Artist Bio
January Gill O'Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road won the Poetry by the Sea Award and was a finalist for the 2024 New England Book Award and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, The Nation, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. Her poem, "At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial," was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O'Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She currently serves as the 2022-2025 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
O'Neil earned her BA from Old Dominion University and her MFA from New York University. She lives in Beverly, MA.
Description
The reading took place on Monday, October 6, 2025, as part of the MFA Alumni and Student Readings event at 12:00 PM in the University Theatre at Old Dominion University.
Recommended Citation
O'Neil, January Gill, "January Gill O'Neil: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2025). 48th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 5-10, 2025. 11.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2025/11