Cynthia Huntington

Cynthia Huntington is an American poet, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.^[1] She has published several books of poetry, most recently The Radiant (Four Way Books, 2003). In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.^[2] She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including TriQuarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review, AGNI,^[3] Ploughshares,^[4] and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (Sribner, 2008) and Contemporary Poetry of New England (Middlebury College Press, 2002).

Huntington has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other awards include: the Robert Frost Prize from The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, the Jane Kenyon Award in Poetry, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize.^[5]

She was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and received her M.A. from The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.

Published Works - Poetry

• Heavenly Bodies (Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming)^[6]
• The Radiant (Four Way Books, 2003, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize)
• We Have Gone to the Beach (Alice James Books, 1996, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award)
• The Fish-Wife (University of Hawaii Press, 1986, Pacific Poetry Sereies Comp Winner)

Published Works - Prose

• The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod (University Press of New England, 1999)

References

1. ^ Dartmouth College > English Department Faculty
2. ^ Library of Congress > New Hampshire - State Poet Laureate
3. ^ Agni Online > Cynthia Huntington
4. ^ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Table of Contents
5. ^ Alice James Books Author Page, Cynthia Huntington
6. ^ Southern Illinois University Press > Book Page > Heavenly Bodies

External links

• Four Way Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page
• Alice James Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page
• Graywolf Press > Real Sofistikashun by Tony Hoagland > Excerpt discussing Huntington's work
• Poem: Orion Magazine > January/February 2010 Issue > All Wet and Shine by Cynthia Huntington
• Poems: terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments > No. 26 Fall/Winter 2010 > Three Poems by Cynthia Huntington
• Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Cynthia Huntington

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