Biography of a Poet

Suzannah Gail Collins, Katherine Collins

March 22, 1941, Manhattan

Collins has been called "The most popular poet in America" by the New York Times.[

Collins attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and received a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963; he received his M.A.

Collins is on the editorial board at The Alaska Quarterly Review. Most recently he contributed to the 30th anniversary edition.[22][23] He is on the advisory bo

Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968.