Pete Follansbee, TWH 2026 Directors Assistant (Poetry)

Pete Follansbee likes writing in the early morning dark and lives in Richmond, Virginia, a good place to survive climate change and political chaos. This summer (2025), Pete’s poems appeared online in Humana Obscura, the Rockvale Review, and Autumn Sky Poetry Daily. In the past, Pete’s poems have been finalists in contests and have found publication in The North American Review, Barrow Street, The New Guard, About Place, New Millenium Writings, and elsewhere. An MFA graduate of the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, Pete was a T.A. for poet Tim Seibles at the summer 2017 edition of The Writer’s Hotel and a Faculty Assistant for their 2021 Virtual Poetry Weekend. Pete has also presented manuscripts at two sessions of The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference. Pete has a website of his published poems at petefollansbee.com.