Moira Linehan (October 21, 1945 – May 10, 2023) was 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 ...

born in 1945. She graduated from

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private university, private Catholic Jesuits, Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic Religious order (Catholic), religious order, t ...

, and

Vermont College of Fine Arts Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a private graduate-level college affiliated with California Institute of the Arts. It offers Master's degrees in a low-residency format. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award wi ...

, with an MFA. She lived in

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, where she worked as an academic administrator. She was a resident at the

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is a residential artist community in Amherst, Virginia, USA. Since 1971, VCCA has offered residencies of varying lengths with flexible scheduling for international artists, writers, and composers at ...

, and the

Millay Colony Millay Arts, formerly the Millay Colony for the Arts, is an arts community offering residency-retreats and workshops in Austerlitz, New York, and free arts programs in local public schools. Housed on the former property of feminist/activist poet ...

. Her work appeared in ''Alaska Quarterly Review'', ''Green Mountains Review'', ''Indiana Review'', and ''Notre Dame Review'', ''

Triquarterly ''TriQuarterly'' is a name shared by an American literary magazine and a series of books. The journal is published twice a year under the aegis of the Northwestern University Department of English and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama ...

''.

Honors and awards

* 2006 Crab Orchard Award * 2001 Honorable mention Thomas Merton Prize of Poetry of the Sacred

Published works

References

External links

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"The Design", ''Verse Daily''

* 1945 births Boston College alumni Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni American women poets 21st-century American women 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1940s-stub 2023 deaths