Occupation Poet Role Poet Name Laura Jensen | Nationality American Language English | |
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Notable awards 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship
NEA fellowship
Washington State Arts Commission grant Education University of Iowa (1974), University of Washington Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Bad Boats, The Kitchen Guide, Memory, Shelter, The Story Makes Them Wh | ||
Laura Linnea Jensen (born November 16, 1948 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.
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She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied with David Wagoner, Mark Strand, and Galway Kinnell, and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA in 1974, where she studied with Norman Dubie, Donald Justice, and Marvin Bell. She became friends with Tess Gallagher.
Her work appeared in Ploughshares. She read at Burning Word 2005. She lives near Wright Park, Tacoma, Washington.
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