Elizabeth Spires

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Elizabeth Spires
Occupation Poet and university professor
Language English
Nationality America
Alma mater Vassar College, Johns Hopkins University

Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.

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Early life and education

Spires was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.[ citation needed ]

Career

Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement. [1] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker , Poetry , American Poetry Review , The New Criterion , The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.[ citation needed ]

Awards and honors

She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.[ citation needed ]

Selected works

Poetry

Children's books

Edited

Anthologies

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References

  1. Catherine Cucinella, ed. (2002). "Elizabeth Spires". Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-313-31783-5.