Elizabeth Spires

Elizabeth Spires is the author of five collections of poetry: "Globe, Swan's Island, Annonciade, Worldlings", and "Now the Green Blade Rises". She has also written six books for children, including "The Mouse of Amherst", and "I heard God talking to me: William Edmonton and his Stone Carvings" (forthcoming in 2009), and edited "The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen".

Spires has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, w whiting Writing’s Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.

Her poems have appeared in "The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review," and in many other literary magazines and anthologies, She lives in Baltimore with her husband and her daughter and is a professor of English at Goucher College where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement. Her latest book of poetry, "The Wave Maker", is set to be released in July 2008.