Linda Gregerson (born August 5, 1950) 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 ...

and member of faculty at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. In 2014, she was named as a Chancellor of the

Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

Life

Linda Gregerson received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1971, an M.A. from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She teaches American poetry and Renaissance literature at the

, where she has also directed the M.F.A. program in creative writing. She served as the judge for the 2008

Brittingham Prize in Poetry The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition. The prize, established in 1985, is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is ...

. Her poems are featured in ''American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets'' (2006) and many other anthologies.

Awards

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the ...

for ''Waterborne'' * The Poet's Prize finalist *

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...

finalist for ''The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep'' * Levinson Prize from ''Poetry'' magazine * Consuelo Ford Award from the

Poetry Society of America The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Ro ...

* Isabel MacCaffrey Award from the Spenser Society of America * 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship * Pushcart Prize.

Bibliography

Poetry

;Collections * ''Fire in the Conservatory'' (1982) * ''The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep'' (1996) * ''Waterborne'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) * ''Magnetic North'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) *''The Selvage'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) *''Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014'', (Houghton Mifflin, 2015) *''Canopy,'' Ecco, New York, 2022. ;List of poems

Non-fiction

* ''The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic'' (1995) * ''Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry'' (2001)

References

External links

Official Home Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregerson, Linda 1950 births Living people American women poets Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni The New Yorker people Northwestern University alumni Oberlin College alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Stanford University alumni University of Michigan faculty American women academics 21st-century American women