Craig Morgan Teicher (born 1979) is an American author, poet and literary critic. His poetry collection, ''The Trembling Answers'', won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He currently lives in

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Biography

Teicher was born in New York in 1979. He studied at

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where he received an MFA in 2005. His poetry collection, ''The Trembling Answers'', won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He is the author of two other poetry collections, ''Brenda is in the Other Room and Other Poems'', published in 2008, winner of the Colorado Poetry Prize and ''To Keep Love Blurry'', published in 2012. In 2010, Teicher published the prose collection, ''Cradle Book: Stories and Fables'', and in 2014, the chapbook, ''Ambivalence and Other Conundrums''. His debut collection of essays, ''We Begin in Gladness'', was published by

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in 2018. Teicher is the director of digital operations at ''

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'' and is a poetry editor of ''

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''. Teicher lives in

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, with his wife, the poet

Brenda Shaughnessy Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an American poet. Life Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and MFA at Columbia Uni ...

, and their children.Lehman, David; and Hirsch, Edward
''Best American Poetry 2016''
p. 190.

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, 2016. . Accessed January 19, 2020. "Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970, and is currently associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.... She lives with her husband, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their two children in Verona, New Jersey."

Bibliography

Poetry

;Collections and chapbooks * ''Brenda is in the Other Room and Other Poems'', (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008) * ''To Keep Love Blurry'' (BOA Editions, 2012) * ''Ambivalence and Other Conundrums'', (Omnidawn, 2014), chapbook * ''The Trembling Answers'' (BOA Editions, 2017) ;List of poems

Prose

* ''Cradle Book'' (BOA Editions, 2010) * ''We Begin in Gladness'', (

, 2018)

Awards

* Colorado Poetry Prize, 2007 * The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, 2018

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Teicher, Craig Morgan 1979 births Living people American poets American writers Columbia University School of the Arts alumni The New Yorker people People from Verona, New Jersey