Connie Wanek's poetry--rooted in the Upper Midwest--is noted for adventurous imagery and pitch-perfect metaphor.

Connie Wanek is the author of two books of poems. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is a librarian and renovates old houses with her husband. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and Country Journal. In 2006 she was selected by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser as a Witter Bynner Fellow in Poetry.