Name Leslie McGrath Role Poet | Education Wesleyan University | |
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Books By the Windpipe, Out from the Pleiades: A Picaresque Novella in Verse, Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage | ||
By the Windpipe by Leslie McGrath
Leslie McGrath is an American poet, editor, and educator. She is the author of the collection Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (Main Street Rag, 2009), which was a finalist for the 2010 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry; the chapbooks Toward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award, and By the Windpipe (ELJ Editions, 2014); and the satiric novella in verse, Out From the Pleiades (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014). She has taught creative writing at Central Connecticut State University since 2009.
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In addition to the honors noted above, McGrath was awarded the University of Tulsa's 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, a 2010 grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, and residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook.
Her literary interviews have been published in Association of Writers & Writing Programs's official magazine, The Writer's Chronicle, and interviews with other journals such as ''Pank'' have also been aired on public radio. McGrath serves on the advisory board for The Word Works, a literary press in Washington, D.C., which sponsors The Washington Prize. She is also the series editor for the Word Works' Tenth Gate Series, an imprint inspired by poet Jane Hirshfield, which recognizes the work of mid-career poets.
McGrath serves on the Poetry Advisory Committee of Sunken Garden Poetry Series at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut, and formerly served on the board of The James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut.