Dana Levin (poet)



Dana Levin (born 1965) is an American poet.

Life
Levin teaches Creative Writing at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

She earned degrees from Pitzer College and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was published by American Poetry Review (Copper Canyon Press) in 1999; it went on to receive nearly every award available to first books and emerging poets. Copper Canyon brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005 and her third, Sky Burial, in 2011.

Her work has appeared in many anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers,The Poet’s Child, This Art, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and in magazines such as The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review.

Writing
The Los Angeles Times says of her work, "Dana Levin's poems are extravagant ... her mind keeps making unexpected connections and the poems push beyond convention ... they surprise us."

Recognition

 * 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
 * 2000 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
 * 2003 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, In the Surgical Theatre
 * 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award
 * 2004 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress
 * 2005 Whiting Writers' Award for poetry.
 * 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry