Poet Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio, and grew up in the lumber and farming regions of Virginia and Ohio. His father was a lumberjack and welder who died at age fifty-six of a heart attack linked to his alcoholism. Plumly’s parents, and his working-class upbringing, figure frequently in his work, especially his early books. Plumly was educated at Wilmington College, a Quaker school in Ohio, and Ohio University, where he earned his PhD. He died in 2019 at the age of 79.
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