Lyn Coffin

Infobox Writer
name = Lyn Coffin
birthdate = birth date|1943|11|12|mf=yes
occupation = Poet, Playwright
nationality = American

Lyn Coffin is an American poet, writer, playwright, and translator.

Biography

Coffin was born on November 12, 1943, and grew up on Long Island, New York. She attended the University of Michigan, where she received the first of three Masters degrees. While in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she won several Hopwood Awards, edited the Michigan Quarterly Review, and gave poetry readings with Nobel Prize winners Joseph Brodsky, Philip Levine, and Czeslaw Milosz. Coffin currently resides in Seattle.

Bibliography

Books

* "Human Trappings", Abattoir Editions (l980)
* "Elegies" by Jiří Orten, CVU Press, (1981). Translation from Czech.
* "The Plague Column" by Jaroslav Seifert, CVU Press (1981). Translation from Czech used by the Nobel Committee in granting Seifert his prize.
* "The Poetry of Wickedness", Ithaca House (1982)
* "The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova", W.W. Norton (1983). Translation from Russian.
* "Crystals of the Unforeseen", Plainview Press (1999)
* "More than One Life", by Milu Holubova, Northwestern University Press (2000). Translation from Czech, with Alex Zucker and Zdenka Brodska.

hort Stories

* "The Second Page," Catholic Digest (1968)
* "Falling Off the Scaffold," Michigan Quarterly Review (1978). Reprinted in Best American Short Stories of 1979, ed. Joyce Carol Oates.
* "Lesson in Black and White," Ball State Forum (1981 winter)
* "Front Towards Enemy," Michigan Quarterly Review (1981 winter)

Awards

* Hopwood Awards in Drama, Short Fiction, Long Fiction, Poetry, and Essay.
* First prize in Translation from Academy of American Poets for her translation of Orten’s "Elegies")
* First prize in the International Poetry Review for "Selected Orten Translations".

External links

* Coffin's entry in [http://www.poetswest.com/directory.htm#C PoetsWest Directory of Northwest Poets]