Joanna Klink

Joanna Klink
Born	Iowa City, Iowa
Alma mater	Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A.) Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Poet

Joanna Klink is an American poet born in Iowa City, Iowa. She received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University, and was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and for many years taught in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Montana. ^[1] She currently teaches at UT Austin's Michener Center for Writers. ^[2] Her most recent book, The Nightfields, was published July 7, 2020 by Penguin.

Publications

• They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
• Circadian (Penguin Books, 2007)
• Raptus (Penguin Books, 2010)
• Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy (Penguin Books, 2015)
• The Nightfields (Penguin Books, 2020)

Honors and awards

• Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2003) ^[3]
• Briggs-Copeland Poet, Harvard University (2008-2011)
• Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Award (2012)
• Civitella Ranieri (2012, 2017)
• American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013)
• Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship (2018)
• The Bogliasco Foundation (2018)
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019) ^[4]

External links

• Official website
• Penguin Author Page

References

1. University of Montana Creative Writing Program Faculty
2. "Poetry Faculty – Michener Center for Writers" . Retrieved 2023-01-01.
3. "Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards > Past Recipients". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
4. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joanna Klink" . Retrieved 2020-02-07.