Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (2017), The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2009), What the Living Do (1997), and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). From 2012 to 2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet in residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.