BIOGRAPHY
Linda Gregerson is the author of four poetry collections: Magnetic
North (2007), Waterborne (2002), The Woman Who Died in Her
Sleep (1996), and Fire in the Conservatory (1982). She is the
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature at
the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and
Renaissance literature.
She has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poetry Society of America, and the Modern Poetry Association, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Magnetic North was a finalist for the National Book Award, and she won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Waterborne. The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep was a finalist for both The Poet's Prize and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry as well as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications.
She is also the author of two volumes of literary criticism: Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001) and The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995). Her essays on lyric poetry and Renaissance literature appear in many journals and anthologies, such as The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Works, The Cambridge Companion to Spenser, Criticism, and ELH (English Literary History).
She has served on the faculties of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Kenyon Review Writers Conference, The Bear River Writer's Conference, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Magnetic North
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Waterborne
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The Woman Who Died In Her Sleep