Paige Ellen Passantino is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in poetry at John’s Hopkins University. She holds a bachelor’s in literature & creative writing from Smith College, where she studied as an Ada Comstock Scholar, a program for students of non-traditional age. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poet’s Anne Bradstreet Prize, and her work can be found in Poets.org, Zenaida, Emulate, and various other publications. She is a 2024 Tin House Scholar and an editor and reader for the Baltimore Review and the Massachusetts Review. Paige is also the recipient of the Ruth Forbes Eliot Prize for poetry and a two-time recipient of the Ethel Olin Orbin prize for creative nonfiction.
