Cynthia Huntington is an American

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, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at

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. In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of

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Life and career

Huntington has published numerous books of poetry, including ''Heavenly Bodies'' (

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, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Award. She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including ''TriQuarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review, AGNI,'' ''Ploughshares,'' and ''Massachusetts Review,'' and in anthologies including ''The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present'' (Sribner, 2008) and ''Contemporary Poetry of New England'' (Middlebury College Press, 2002). She was born in

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, and received her M.A. from The Bread Loaf School of English at

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. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at

Awards and honors

*2004 Poet Laureate of

. *2012

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(Poetry), finalist, ''Heavenly Bodies'' Huntington has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as two fellowships from the

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. Other awards include: the Robert Frost Prize from The Frost Place in

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, the Jane Kenyon Award in Poetry, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize.

Works

;Poetry *''Terra Nova'' (

, 2017) *''Fire Muse: Poems from the Salt House'' (Dartmouth College Press, 2016) * ''Heavenly Bodies'' (

, 2012) * ''The Radiant'' ( Four Way Books, 2003, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize) * ''We Have Gone to the Beach'' (

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, 1996, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award) * ''The Fish-Wife'' (University of Hawaii Press, 1986, Pacific Poetry Series Comp Winner) ;Prose * ''The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod'' (

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, 1999)

References

External links

Four Way Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page

Graywolf Press > ''Real Sofistikashun'' by Tony Hoagland > Excerpt discussing Huntington's work

Poem: ''Orion Magazine'' > January/February 2010 Issue > ''All Wet and Shine'' by Cynthia Huntington

* ttp://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=738 ''Ploughshares'' > Authors & Articles > Cynthia Huntington {{DEFAULTSORT:Huntington, Cynthia American women poets Poets laureate of New Hampshire Middlebury College alumni Dartmouth College faculty American academics of English literature Living people Writers from Pennsylvania Writers from Vermont National Endowment for the Arts Fellows American memoirists People from Orange County, Vermont American women memoirists Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women Memoirists from Pennsylvania Memoirists from Vermont