Peter Covino is a prizewinning author of four books: two full-length poetry collections: Cut Off the Ears of Winter, and The Right Place to Jump, both from W. Michigan UP New Issues, and a coedited collection of essays about Italian American culture, among others.
He is also a well-published scholarly writer who writes about contemporary poetics, ethnic and working-class culture, and queer studies.
His poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poet’s Poem-a-day, the American Poetry Review, the Paris Review, and the Yale Review among many others.