Heather McHugh

Heather McHugh

Heather McHugh (born 1948) is an American poet. [ [http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/heather_mchugh Heather McHugh - Poems, Biography, Quotes ] ] She was born in San Diego, California, but was raised in Virginia. At the age of sixteen, she entered Harvard University. Her most notable work was "Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993", which won the Bingham Poetry Prize of the Boston Book Review and the Pollack-Harvard Review Prize. The New York Times Book Review named this work the "Notable Book of the Year".

McHugh was elected as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. She teaches at the University of Washington and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Awards and honors

* Two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
* Griffin Poetry Prize.
* Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
* Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, University of Washington.
* Finalist for the National Book Award.
* Witter Bynner Fellowship.
* PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
* O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Bibliography

* "Dangers", 1977
* "A World of Difference", 1981
* "To the Quick", 1987
* "Shades", 1988
* "Because the Sea is Black: Poems of Blaga Dimitrova", 1989 with Niko Boris
* "Broken English: Poetry and Partiality", 1993
* "Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993", 1994
* "The Father of the Predicaments", 1999
* "Eyeshot", 2003
* Guest editor, "The Best American Poetry 2007", 2007

References

External links

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/235 Heather McHugh] at poets.org.
* [http://www.lectures.org/mchugh.html Heather McHugh] at Seattle Arts and Lectures.
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2001.php?t=7 Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov] at Griffin Poetry Prize.


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