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Lee Upton (born June 2, 1953, St. Johns, Michigan [1] ) is an American poet, fiction writer, and literary critic. [2] She earned her BA in journalism at Michigan State University, her master of fine arts (MFA) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Program for Poets & Writers, [3] [4] [5] [6] and her PhD in English literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton. [7]

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Life

She is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, including The Muse of Abandonment (1998, Bucknell University Press), Civilian Histories (2000, University of Georgia Press), Undid in the Land of Undone (2007, New Issues/Western Michigan University Press), and The Guide to the Flying Island (2009, Miami University Press). [8] [9] She is a former [10] professor of English and writer in residence at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. [11] In 1990, Upton collaborated with artist Ed Kerns and fellow poet Charles Molesworth on a collaborative exhibition of poetry and images at the Williams Center in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic , the New Republic , American Poetry Review , Harvard Review , and DoubleTake.

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Novels

Novellas

Short fiction collections

Nonfiction

Libretto

Collaborative Art Books

Selected anthologies

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