Miriam Levine | |
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Born | 1939 (age 85–86) Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
Occupation | Memoirist, poet, novelist |
Education | Boston University (BA, MA) Tufts University (PhD) |
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Miriam Levine (born 1939) is an American memoirist, poet and novelist. [1] Levine was the first Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts. [2]
Levine was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of Gertrude and Joseph Levine. [3] She spent her early years in Passaic, New Jersey and earned a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University and a PhD in British Literature from Tufts University. [4]
Levine was a professor at Framingham State University; and, before that, taught at Emerson College, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Northeastern University. [5] [4]
Levine, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, [6] is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. [7] Awarded a Pushcart Prize, [8] she was a resident fellow at Yaddo; [8] Le Chateau de Lavigny International Writers' Colony, Switzerland; [9] and Millay Colony for the Arts. [10]
We chose Miriam Levine to be the first Poet Laureate of Arlington.