Elizabeth Spires

Template:Short description Template:Template other Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.

Early life and education

Spires was raised in Circleville, Ohio. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.

Career

Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.

Awards and honors

She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, 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.

Selected works

Edited

• The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.

External links

• Audio: Elizabeth Spires reads You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country from The Wave-Maker (2008)
• Audio: Elizabeth Spires reads S n a i l from The Wave-Maker (2008)
• Interview: Elizabeth Spires Interview (2010) Template:Webarchive from KeepWriting.org
• Profile and Publication Info: The Whiting Foundation