Cecily Parks received a BA from Rice University in 1999, an MA in poetry from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in 2000, an MFA in poetry from Columbia University in 2005, and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2011.
Parks is the author of three poetry collections: The Seeds (Alice James Books, 2025); O’Nights (Alice James Books, 2015); and Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008). Her chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) was chosen by Li-Young Lee for the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She is the editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2016).
Parks teaches at Texas State University and lives in Austin, Texas.