Joanna Klink is an American poet. She was born in

Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City, offically the City of Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the home of the University of Iowa and county seat of Johnson County, at the center of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the time ...

. She received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the

Iowa Writers' Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative W ...

and a Ph.D. in Humanities from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and for many years taught in the Creative Writing Program at

The University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fa ...

. She currently teaches at UT Austin's

Michener Center for Writers The Michener Center for Writers is an interdisciplinary Masters of Fine Arts program in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. It is widely regarded as one of the top creative writing programs in the wo ...

. Her most recent book, ''The Nightfields,'' was published July 7, 2020 by

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Publications

* ''They Are Sleeping'' (

University of Georgia Press The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is the university press of the University of Georgia, a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. It is the oldest and largest publishing house in Georgia and a ...

, 2000) * ''Circadian'' (Penguin Books, 2007) * ''Raptus'' (Penguin Books, 2010) * ''Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy'' (Penguin Books, 2015) * ''The Nightfields'' (Penguin Books, 2020)

Honors and awards

Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award wa ...

(2003) * Briggs-Copeland Poet, Harvard University (2008-2011) * Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Award (2012) * Civitella Ranieri (2012, 2017) * American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013) * Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship (2018) * The Bogliasco Foundation (2018) * John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)

External links

Official website

Penguin Author Page

References

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