Lucie Brock-Broido

Lucie Brock-Broido (born 22 May 1956 in Pittsburgh, PA) is an American poet.

Life
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received a B.A. and Master of Arts (postgraduate)|M.A.]] from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University.

She is the author of three collections of poetry.

Recognition
She has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She was described as an Elliptical Poet by critic Stephen Burt.

Brock-Broido is currently Director of Poetry in the Writing Division at Columbia University in New York City.

Publications

 * Trouble in Mind  (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)
 * The Master Letters  (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)
 * A Hunger (Alfred A. Knopf,1988)