Elizabeth Macklin
Encyclopedia
Life
She read Spanish literature at SUNY Potsdam, and Complutense University of MadridComplutense University of Madrid
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. In 1974 to 1999, worked at The New Yorker, living in New York City
New York City
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She spent a year in Bilbao, Spain, until February 2000.
She works as a translator with The Basque Literature Series. Her work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review.
Awards
- 1990 Ingram Merrill poetry prize.
- 1993 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
in Poetry - 1999 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling ScholarshipAmy Lowell Poetry Travelling ScholarshipThe Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work....
Anthologies
- The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, ed. Phillis Levin (Penguin Books, 2001)
- The KGB Bar Book of Poems, ed. David Lehman & Star Black (HarperCollins; 2000)
- Prayers at 3 A.M., ed. Phil Cousineau (Harper San Francisco; l995)
- Best American Poetry 1993, ed. Louise Glück and David Lehman (Scribners).
Essays
- "Who Put the Code in the Dagoeneko?" Barrow Street, Fall 2001.