Name Susan Mitchell | Role Poet | |
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Education Georgetown University, Wellesley College, Columbia University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Nominations National Book Award for Poetry Books Erotikon: Poems, The Water Inside the Water, Rapture, Be Bold!: And Discover t, All Things Bright & Beautiful | ||
Susan mitchell on winning the kingsley tufts poetry award
Susan Mitchell (born in 1944) is an American poet, essayist and translator who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon.
Contents
- Susan mitchell on winning the kingsley tufts poetry award
- Fine Poetry Poems of Susan Mitchell
- Life
- Awards
- Published works
- Honors and awards
- References
Fine Poetry - Poems of Susan Mitchell
Life
Mitchell grew up in New York City, New York and now lives in Boca Raton, Florida. She has a B.A. in English literature from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and was a PhD student at Columbia University. She has taught at Middlebury College and Northeastern Illinois University, and currently holds the Mary Blossom Lee Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University.
She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. Her poems have also been included in five volumes of The Best American Poetry and two Pushcart Prize volumes.
Awards
She has been recognized for her work by notable organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. Her collection, Rapture, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a National Book Award finalist.