Camille Norton (born 1955) 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 ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and academic.

Life

She studied with Martha Collins, Linda Dittmar, and Lois Rudnick at the

University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a Public university, public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus Un ...

; graduated from

, and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

with a M.A. and Ph.D. Her work appeared in ''Greensboro Review'', ''Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics'', ''The Colorado Review'', ''Tiferet'', ''Iris'', ''Exphrasis'', ''The White Pelican Review'', ''The Gail Scott Reader'', and ''How2''. She teaches at

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. She will be on the panel for

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2010, "Poets in the World: Building Diverse Communities through Independent Poetry Centers, Blogs, and Radio."

Awards

* 2004 National Poetry Series Award Winner * Best American Poetry 2010 Selection

Works

"Estuary", ''Caffeine Destiny''
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Criticism

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Editor

References

External links

* * ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110708112659/http://www.camillenorton.com/ "Author's website" 1955 births Living people American women poets Harvard University alumni University of Massachusetts Boston alumni Poets from Massachusetts 21st-century American women 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1950s-stub