Mischa Willett

Mischa Willett is the author of three books of poetry—This Gift Card Has Already Been Redeemed (Paraclete, 2026), The Elegy Beta (2020), and Phases (2017)—and the editor of Philip James Bailey’s Festus (2022). A specialist in Romantic-era aesthetics, he publishes essays, translations, and academic articles in venues including Comment, First Things, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Victorian Literature and Culture. He directs the Whitworth Writers Workshop, a faith-based low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.