Linda Gregerson

Linda Gregerson (born August 5, 1950) is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan . Her books of poetry include "Magnetic North" (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), "Waterborne" (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), "The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep" (1996), and "Fire in the Conservatory" (1982). She is also the author of literary criticism, including "Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry" (2001) and "The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic" (1995).

She is a winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for "Waterborne", and a finalist for both The Poet's Prize and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep". Her awards and honors include the Levinson Prize from "Poetry" magazine, the Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Isabel MacCaffrey Award from the Spenser Society of America, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems are featured in "American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets" (2006) and many other anthologies.

Linda Gregerson received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1971, an M.A. from Northwestern University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She teaches American poetry and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan, where she has also directed the M.F.A. program in creative writing.

External links

* [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gregerso/ Official Home Page]