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Angie Mazakis’s first book of poetry, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for the 2020 Miller Williams Prize and was published by University of Arkansas Press. The book was named as a Best Book of 2020 by The Boston Globe and was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Washington Square Review, Columbia Journal, Indiana Review, Conduit, Lana Turner Journal, Nat. Brut and other journals and forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. She is a 2025 recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. She has an MFA from George Mason University and a PhD from Ohio University.