Margo Taft Stever is an American poet, whose poetry collections include The End of Horses (Broadstone Books, 2020),[1] winner of the Pinnacle Achievement Award in Poetry, 2022; Cracked Piano[2][3] (CavanKerry Press, 2019); Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019); The Lunatic Ball (Kattywompus Press, 2015); The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag, 2012); Frozen Spring (Mid-List Press First Series Award, 2002) and Reading the Night Sky (Riverstone Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 1996).
[5][6] Stever co-authored the book Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S.
Diplomatic Mission to China (Zhejiang University Press, 2012).
[7] Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Verse Daily; Prairie Schooner; Connecticut Review; “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Academy of American Poets; Cincinnati Review; upstreet; Plume; and Salamander.
[8] She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center[9][10][11] and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.