Linda Gregerson is an American

United States

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 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and member of faculty at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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Life

Linda Gregerson received a B.A. from Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 in 1971, an M.A. from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

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, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University

Stanford University

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. She teaches American poetry and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

, 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

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 selected by a nationally recognized poet, The winner is...

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

Awards

• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Waterborne
• The Poet's Prize finalist
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist for The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
• Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine
• Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America
  Poetry Society of America
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• Isabel MacCaffrey Award from the Spenser Society of America
• 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
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• Pushcart Prize
  Pushcart Prize
  The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
  
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Works

• "The Death Of Ananias" from "The Life Of St Peter", Poetry Review 99:4,Winter 2009
• "At the Window", Slate, Dec. 12, 2006
• "No Lion, No Moon"; "My Father Comes Back From The Grave"; "Prodigal", Reading Between A&B

• Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
• Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
• The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996)
• Fire in the Conservatory (1982)

Criticism

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

External links

• Official Home Page