She also facilitates arts administration internships for MFA poets and writers. She teaches poetry writing workshops, form & theory seminars and contemporary poetry. She currently directs the MFA Program for Poets and Writers. She is co-founder and co-director of the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action, and the Juniper Institute's Summer Workshops. With Guy Pettit and Emily Pettit she founded, edits, and publishes for Factory Hollow Press, a division of Flying Object, a non profit arts center in Hadley, Massachusetts.

Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council and awards from the San Francisco Intrnational Poetry Center, the American Poetry Review, and Phi Beta Kappa have supported her work. Dara Wier's dozen books include You Good Thing (Wave 2013) and Selected Poems (Wave 2010) other books and chapbooks include Reverse Rapture (a book length poem, Verse Press 2007) A Civilian's Journal Of The War Years (Song Cave 2012) and We Would Like To Return The Scarf To You In Good Condition (Small Anchor, forthcoming) and You Stare As If Staring Were The Start of All Stars (Pilot Books, forthcoming).

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