Lynn Emanuel

Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are ''Then, Suddenly—'' and ''Noose and Hook'' (University of Pittsburgh Press).

She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets.
She also won the 1992 National Poetry Series Open Competition for ''The Dig,'' and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including ''Parnassus,'' ''The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Slate'' and ''Ploughshares,'' and in anthologies including '' The Best American Poetry'' anthologies in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2000, and the ''Oxford Book of American Poetry'' (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Emanuel is Director of the Writing Program, and Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, and a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is married to the anthropologist, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, and they reside in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The early primate ''Microadapis lynnae'' is named after her.

Personal

Emanuel was born in Mt. Kisco, New York and has lived, worked, and traveled in North Africa, Europe, and the Near East. She received a B.A. from Bennington College in 1972, and an M.A. from City College of New York in 1975, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa in 1983.University of Pittsburgh > English Department Faculty
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Bibliography

* ''The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected'', poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015, and winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize)
* ''Noose and Hook'', poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010)
* ''Then, Suddenly—'', poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999)
* ''The Dig'', poetry (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992)
* ''Hotel Fiesta'', poetry (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984)
* ''Oblique Light'', poetry (Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1979)

References

External links

POEM: Academy of American Poets > Lynn Emanuel > ''Inventing Father in Las Vegas''


* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080414172343/http://www1.cuny.edu/forums/podcasts/?p=288 AUDIO: CUNY Radio Podcasts > Poet Lynn Emanuel Reads > December 21, 2007
AUDIO: ''Night Run'' By Lynn Emanuel > Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006

AUDIO: ''The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor'' > ''Blond Bombshell'' > by Lynn Emanuel, Sunday, 1 June 2003

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1949 births
Living people
Writers from Pittsburgh
Bennington College alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
American academics of English literature
National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
American women poets
American women non-fiction writers
American women academics
21st-century American women