A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, Fisher-Wirth received Fulbright scholarships to Switzerland and Sweden. She has had residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, Storyknife, The Mesa Refuge, and Camac; in October 2025, she will be in residence at Studio Faire in the South of France. She received the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Literature and Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. She has also received three Mississippi Arts Commission Poetry Fellowships, the MS Institute of Arts Poetry Award, and fifteen Pushcart nominations.

Fisher-Wirth’s work is exhibited in her various books of poems. Her eighth book of poems is a poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert, with translations of Fisher-Wirth’s poems into Spanish by the Women in Translation collective, Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, and was exhibited at the Guadalajara Book Festival in 2023 and published by the University of Guadalajara Press. Fisher-Wirth, Raussert, and the translators have expanded the book and hope to publish it in the United States. Other books include Paradise Is Jagged (Terrapin Books, 2023), and a book of poetry/photography in collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, Mississippi. In addition, Fisher-Wirth coedited with Laura-Gray Street, The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013), and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2025).

Ann Fisher-Wirth retired in 2022 from the University of Mississippi, where she taught for 33 years in the MFA program and directed the Environmental Studies program. For many years, she also taught yoga at Southern Star in Oxford. She is preceded in the role of Poet Laureate by Catherine Pierce.

On May 15, 2025, Governor Tate Reeves announced Ann Fisher-Wirth as Mississippi’s Poet Laureate. Ann will serve a four-year term.