Baruch November, MFA

Yehoshua November is the author of three poetry collections: God’s Optimism (MSR, 2010), a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and winner of the MSR Poetry Book Award; Two Worlds Exist (Orison 2016), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and The Concealment of Endless Light (Orison Books, fall 2024). His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Tikkun, Moment, Best American Poetry, Best Spiritual Literature, and on National Public Radio and Poetry Unbound. November has taught at the Lander College of Arts and Sciences since 2005. 

Education

• BA, SUNY at Binghamton
• MFA, Creative Writing-Poetry, University of Pittsburgh  

Honors and Awards

• Winner of the MSR Poetry Book Award, Prairie Schooner’s Bernice Slote Award, and the London School of Jewish Studies Poetry Competition
• Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience
• Poems selected for inclusion in the Best American Poetry anthology (2025) and the Best Spiritual Literature anthology (2023 & 2017).
• Named to The Jewish Week’s list of the 36 "Best and Brightest Innovators and Visionaries" under 36 years of age (2011).
• Nominated for five Pushcart Prizes
• Fellow and Faculty Member at Yetzirah’s Jewish Poetry Conference (University of North Carolina)