Lynda Hull

Lynda Hull (December 5, 1954 - March 29, 1994) was a United States poet.

Life

Hull grew up in Newark, New Jersey. At the age of sixteen she won a scholarship to Princeton University, but ran away from home. During the next ten years she lived in many places including various Chinatowns following a marriage to an immigrant from Shanghai. [Collected Poems, pp 227 – 229]

In the early 1980s Hull started studying at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and earned her BA in Little Rock, and then her MA from Johns Hopkins University. She taught English at Indiana University, De Paul University, and in the MFA in Writing Progra at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She worked as a poetry editor at the journal "Crazyhorse."

Hull had published two collections of poetry when she died in a car accident in 1994 and a third, "The Only World", was published posthumously by her husband, the poet David Wojahn. Her first book of poetry, "Ghost Money," won the Juniper Prize in 1986. A "Collected Poems" was published in 2006.

Books

* "Ghost Money" (University of Massachusetts Press, 1986)
* "Star Ledger" (University of Iowa Press, 1991)
* "The Only World" (Harper Perennial, 1995)
* "Collected Poems" (Graywolf Press, October 31, 2006)

Prizes

* 1991 Carl Sandburg Award for "Star Ledger"
* 1990 Edwin Ford Piper Award for "Star Ledger"
* 1986 Juniper Prize for "Ghost Money"

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/726 The Academy of American Poets Biographical Entry]
* [http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/reviews/laurence_goldstein.htm Essay by Laurence Goldstein on Lynda Hull's work from Iowa Review]
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleid=3903 Review of "The Only World" in Fall 1995 issue of "Ploughshares"]
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n1/nonfiction/hull_l/remembered.htm "Blackbird's" "Lynda Hull Remembered" Essays and audio on Hull by David Wojahn, Elizabeth Alexander, Mark Doty, David Jauss, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Susan Aizenberg. Two previously unpublished poems and video of Hull reading "The Window."]