Jorie Graham

Poet

Lee, MA
Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

<b>Teaching Experience</b>: Harvard University, 1998-present<br>
Department of English & American Literature<br>
Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory</p>

University of Iowa, 1983-1998<br>
Director of Writers' Workshop, Poetry<br>
Professor of English</p>

Columbia University, 1982-83<br>
Visiting Lecturer</p>

The Radcliffe Institute, 1982-83<br>
Visiting Poet</p>

Publications & Prizes

Books:
P L A C E (Ecco Press, 2012)
,
Sea Change (Ecco Press, 2008)
,
Overlord (Ecco Press, 2005)
,
All Things (University of Iowa Press, 2002)
,
Never (Ecco Press, 2002)
,
Swarm (Ecco Press, 2000)
,
The Dream of the Unified Field (Ecco Press, 1997)
,
The Errancy (Ecco Press, 1997)
,
Earth Took of Earth (Ecco Press, 1996)
,
Materialism (Ecco Press, 1993)
,
Region of Unlikeness (Ecco Press, 1991)
,
The Best American Poetry 1990 (Collier Books, 1990)
,
The End of Beauty (Ecco Press, 1987)
,
Erosion (Princeton University Press, 1983)
,
Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts (Princeton University Press, 1980)
Prizes won: 

Nonino International Prize, 2013</p>

Forward Prize (UK), 2012</p>

Lannan Foundation Grant, 1998</p>

Chancellor, Academy of American Poets, 1997-2003</p>

Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1996</p>

Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Teaching Fellowship, 1994</p>

Morton Zaubel Award, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1992</p>

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, 1990</p>

Whiting Foundation Award, 1986</p>

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984</p>

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1983</p>

Radcliffe Institute/Bunting Fellowship, 1982</p>

Great Lakes Association Award for best first book, 1982</p>

Ingram-Merrill Foundation Grant, 1981</p>

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
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Last update: Apr 10, 2013