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Stuart Dischell is an American poet, the prize-winning (National Poetry Series) author of four collections of poetry published by Penguin Poets. He is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. He is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

He was born on May 29, 1954 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He studied Literature at Antioch College and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Writers workshop at the University of Iowa where he studied poetry with Donald Justice, Stanley Plumly, and Jon Anderson. After graduating Iowa, Dischell moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and taught at Boston University. In 1992, he accepted a position at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road, a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection, (Viking, 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin, 1996), Dig Safe (Penguin, 2003), and Backwards Days (Penguin, 2007). His poems have been published in journals such as The Atlantic, The New Republic, Agni, Slate, The Kenyon Review, and in anthologies including Essential Pleasures, Hammer and Blaze, The Pushcart Prize, and Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he has also taught in the Low Residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is frequently on the faculty of the Sarah Lawrence Summer Literary Seminars. He has read his poetry at colleges and other venues including The Library of Congress, The Chateau Marmont Hotel, Cafe Universel, and book festivals.

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