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Nationality
  
American

Awards
  
Whiting Awards

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Dana Levin

Genre
  
Poetry


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Alma mater
  
Pitzer College; New York University.

Education
  
New York University, Pitzer College

Books
  
In the Surgical Theatre, Wedding day, Sky Burial

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Dana Levin (born 1965) is a poet and teaches Creative Writing each Fall at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence. She also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Life

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She earned degrees from Pitzer College and the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

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Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Gluck for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize (Copper Canyon Press); it went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005 and her third, Sky Burial, in 2011. In reviewing Sky Burial, The New Yorker called it "utterly her own, and utterly riveting." The Los Angeles Times says of Levin's work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant...her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention...they surprise us." Her most recent book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).

Awards

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  • 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
  • 2000 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
  • 2003 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, In the Surgical Theatre
  • 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award
  • 2004 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress
  • 2005 Whiting Award for poetry
  • 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
  • Works

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  • In the surgical theatre: poems. American Poetry Review. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9663395-2-9. 
  • Wedding day. Copper Canyon Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-55659-219-5. 
  • Sky Burial. Copper Canyon Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-55659-219-5. 
  • Banana Palace. Copper Canyon Press. 2016.
  • Anthologies

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  • Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, eds. (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-932511-29-1. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • Joan Murray, eds. (2006). The Pushcart Book of Poetry. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-34-5. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels, eds. (2000). American poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • References

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