Life
Willis grew up in the Midwestern United States and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She then earned a Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo.
Willis has taught at several institutions including Brown University, Mills College and the University of Denver and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Centre International de Poésie, Marseille. Since 2002, she has taught at Wesleyan University where she currently serves as the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing.
Willis has been awarded fellowships from the California Arts Council and the Howard Foundation and has won the National Poetry Series, the PEN New England Award and the Boston Review Prize for Poetry. In 2012, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. Willis lives in Middletown, CT.
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