Name Elizabeth Spires | Role Poet | |
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Education Johns Hopkins University (1979), Vassar College Awards Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Mouse of Amherst, The wave‑maker, I Heard God Talking to, Worldling, Now the green blade rises | ||
Poet elizabeth spires on riddles and writer s block
Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.
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- Poet elizabeth spires on riddles and writer s block
- Poet in residence elizabeth spires reads to a fog spirit on halloween
- Poetry
- Childrens books
- Edited
- Anthologies
- References
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. 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 .
Spires was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and her daughter, a graduate of Columbia University, and is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.