Larissa Szporluk is an American

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and professor. Her most recent book is ''Embryos & Idiots'' (

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, 2007). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Daedalus'', ''Faultline'', ''Meridian'', ''American Poetry Review'', and ''Black Warrior Review''. Her honors include two

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awards, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from Guggenheim, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council.

Background

She was raised in

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and graduated from the

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. She studied at the

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and graduated from

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, and the

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with an MFA, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow. She was a visiting professor at

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, in 2005, and currently teaches at

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. Her work has been included in anthologies such as ''The Best American Poetry 1999'' (Scribner, 1999), ''Best of Beacon 1999'' (Beacon Press, 2000), ''The new young American poets'' (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), ''Best American Poetry 2001'' (Simon and Schuster, 2001) and ''Twentieth-century American poetry'' (McGraw Hill, 2004).

Honors & awards

* 2009

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 2003-2004

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

Fellowship in Poetry * 2003-2004 Ohio Arts Council Individual Award for Poetry * 1997

Barnard Women Poets Prize The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a literary award in the United States for an English language book of poetry. From 1986 to 2001, the prize was a first-book award called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Winners had their poetry book published und ...

* 1998

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 was ...

* Iowa Poetry Prize, for ''Isolato''

Poetry collections

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References

External links

"Featured Poet:Larissa Szporluk", ''Web del Sol''

"An Interview with Larissa Szporluk", Matt McBride, ''Memorious 11'', December 2008
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