Jane Springer (born

Lawrenceburg, Tennessee The city of Lawrenceburg is the county seat of Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States, The largest city on the state's southern border between Chattanooga and Memphis, it lies on the banks of Shoal Creek. The population was 11,633 at the 20 ...

) 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 ...

. Her honors include a 2010 Whiting Award, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, and the Beatrice Hawley Award from

Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, MA in 19 ...

Life

She graduated from

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with a PhD in creative writing. She is associate professor of Literature and Creative Writing at

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

. She was a

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Fellow and her first book, ''Dear Blackbird,'' won the 2006 Agha Shahid Ali Prize. Her work appeared in ''AGNI'', ''Sycamore Review'', and ''Poetry''. Poet Lynnell Edwards, reviewing her second collection, ''Murder Ballad'', noted, "Springer's long line is fearless in its music, indulging luscious sounds and pounding measures. Traversing the despair of the rural south, heexploits the urgency and dread of every keening murder ballad, showing how that cleaving is both our undoing and our salvation."

Works

*''Dear Blackbird'', University of Utah Press, 2007 *''Murder Ballad'', Alice James Books, May 2012

References

External links

Poet's blogProfile at The Whiting Foundation"Interview with Jane Springer"
''The Cincinnati Review'', Don Bogen, December 19, 2010 *http://www.versedaily.org/2007/aboutjanespringerdb.shtml {{DEFAULTSORT:Springer, Jane 21st-century American poets Florida State University alumni Hamilton College (New York) faculty Living people People from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee American women poets 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics