Elizabeth Spires
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Early life and education
Spires was raised in Circleville, Ohio.[1] She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.[2]
Career
Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.[3] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.[2]
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.[2]
Selected works
Poetry
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Children's books
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Edited
- The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.
Anthologies
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References
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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