Patricia Storace 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 wri ...

. She is the 1993 winner of the

Witter Bynner Poetry Prize The Witter Bynner Poetry Prize was established by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980 to support the work of a young poet. It is named for poet Witter Bynner. The prize was discontinued in 2003. It is not to be confused ...

by the

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and a 1996 recipient of a Whiting Award.

Life

She was raised in Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

, and

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

. She lives in

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. Her work has appeared in the ''AGNI'', ''Harper's'', ''New York Review of Books'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', and the ''Arvon anthology'' edited by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.

Works

Poetry

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Novel

Memoir

Children's

References

External links

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Profile at The Whiting Foundation
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American memoirists Writers from Mobile, Alabama Barnard College alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Poets from Alabama American women poets American women memoirists 21st-century American women {{US-poet-stub