Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951) is an award-winning American poet. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and is married to the poet, Michael Madonick. She is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been included in five volumes of the "Pushcart Prize Anthology" and six volumes of "The Best American Poetry".

Awards

*2008: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
*2006: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
*2005: Pulitzer Prize (poetry), Finalist
*2005: National Book Critics' Circle (poetry), Finalist
*2005: Los Angeles Times Book Award (poetry), Finalist
*2005: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
*1999: Academy of Arts and Letters' Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
*1996: Whiting Writers' Award
*1995: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, Finalist
*1994: Academy of American Poets' Lamont Poetry Prize (now named the James Laughlin Award)
*1986: Yale Younger Poets Award, selected by James Merrill
*1986: Discovery/"The Nation" Poetry Prize

Books

*2008: "Poems: Song" and "The Orchard". Carcanet.
*2004: "The Orchard". BOA Editions.
*1995: "Song". BOA Editions.
*1987: "To the Place of Trumpets". Yale University Press.

External links

* [http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/53 Academy of American Poets Biography]
* [http://www.blueflowerarts.com/bpkelly.html Literary Agent site]
* [http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/kelly.html BOA Editions Biography]

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