Linda Gregerson (born August 5, 1950) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

and member of faculty at the

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. In 2014, she was named as a Chancellor of the

Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outrea ...

Life

Linda Gregerson received a B.A. from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

in 1971, an M.A. from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her Ph.D. from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. She teaches American poetry and Renaissance literature at the

, where she has also directed the M.F.A. program in creative writing. She took up an appointment as the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at

Beloit College Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1846 when Wisconsin was still a territory, it is the state's oldest continuously operated college. It has an enrollment of roughly 1,000 undergradua ...

in the academic year 2009–2010. She served as the judge for the 2008 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her poems are featured in ''American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets'' (2006) and many other anthologies.

Awards

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...

for ''Waterborne'' * The Poet's Prize finalist *

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...

finalist for ''The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep'' * Levinson Prize from ''Poetry'' magazine * Consuelo Ford Award from the

Poetry Society of America Poetry (from the Greek word '' poiesis'', "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any partic ...

* Isabel MacCaffrey Award from the Spenser Society of America * 2000

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

Selected works

Poetry

;Collections * ''Fire in the Conservatory'' (1982) * ''The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep'' (1996) * ''Waterborne'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) * ''Magnetic North'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) *''The Selvage'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) *''Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014'', (Houghton Mifflin, 2015) *''Canopy,'' Ecco, New York, 2022. ;List of poems

Non-fiction

* ''The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic'' (1995) * ''Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry'' (2001)

References

External links

Official Home Page
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