Sydney Lea

Sydney Lea is an American poet, novelist, essayist, editor, and professor, and is currently the Poet Laureate of Vermont. His most recent book is A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling (Storyline Press, 2006), and he has a ninth collection of poetry, Young of the Year, now out from Four Way Books. He has taught for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, as well as at Yale University, Wesleyan University, Vermont College, Middlebury College, Franklin College, and the National Hungarian University. He founded New England Review in 1977 and edited it till 1989. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Newbury, Vermont.

Honors and awards

 * 2011 appointed Poet Laureate of Vermont
 * 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Pursuit of a Wound
 * 1998 Poets' Prize, for To the Bone: New and Selected Poems
 * 1992 Fulbright Scholarship
 * 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship
 * 1985 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections

Novels
 * 1st edition Scribner's 1989

Essay Collections
 * 1st edition
 * 1st edition

Anthology Publications

Anthologies Edited