Dante Di Stefano is the author of five poetry collections and a chapbook, including, most recently, the book-length poem, The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025). His other poetry collections are: the book-length poem Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023); Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, 2016); Ill Angels (Etruscan Press, 2019); and Lullaby with Incendiary Device, published in a three-in-one edition titled Generations (Etruscan Press, 2022), also featuring work by William Heyen and H.L. Hix.

His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Binghamton University. He has won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the On Teaching Poem Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize, the Red Hen Press Poetry Award, the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, as well as prizes from The Academy of American Poets, Mississippi Review, Slippery Elm, The Crab Orchard Review, The Madison Review, and Stone Canoe.

He co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People (NYQ Books, 2018).

Over the years, he has worked in various editorial and staff positions for the following literary journals: Arcadia, Bellevue Literary Review, Dialogist, and Harpur Palate.

He teaches high school English in Endicott, NY and lives in Endwell, New York with his wife, Christina, their daughter, Luciana, their son, Dante Jr., and their goldendoodle, Sunny.