Teaching Artist Profile

Libby is a poet and community-based artist in Queens, New York. Her impulse as a poet is to uncover the extraordinary in the ordinary, and to weave together personal, collective and ecological healing. She received her MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2018, and in 2019 she was the recipient of an artist grant with Queens Arts Fund to produce Queens Flora, a poetry project about the plants of the Ridgewood Reservoir. 

Libby is a firm believer in the power of the arts as a vehicle for collective transformation. In addition to her own creative process, she designs and facilitates arts projects and workshops to engage communities in creative expression. In 2015 she received a grant from Queens Council on the Arts to produce Inside Norman Street, a storytelling and performance project that brought together former strangers living on a single street in Ridgewood, Queens to share their stories and create performance in collaboration with professional musicians and dancers. Currently, Libby works as a teaching artist in New York City public schools with Community-Word Project, City Lore, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Drawn to interdisciplinary modes of art-marking, Libby is also a certified leader in InterPlay, an active, creative approach to unlock the wisdom of the body that uses improvisational storytelling, movement and song.  ​