Sally Connolly

Headshot of poet Sally Connolly

Sally Connolly is a scholar and critic specializing in Irish, British, and American poetry. Her first book, Grief and Meter (University of Virginia Press, 2018), is the first to consider elegies for poets as a significant elegiac subgenre. Her second book, Ranches of Isolation (Madhat Press, 2018), explores 20th- and 21st-century transatlantic poetic relations. She is an associate professor of contemporary poetry at the University of Houston and is currently working on a book about AIDS poetry.