Brigit Pegeen Kelly



Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951 Palo Alto, California) is an award-winning American poet.

Life
She is married to Michael Madonick, a poet and fiction writer.

She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College. She is a professor of English and Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Awards

 * 2008: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
 * 2006: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
 * 2005: Pulitzer Prize (poetry), Finalist
 * 2005: National Book Critics' Circle (poetry), Finalist
 * 2005: Los Angeles Times Book Award (poetry), Finalist
 * 2005: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 * 1999: American Academy of Arts and Letters Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
 * 1996: Whiting Writers' Award
 * 1995: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, Finalist
 * 1994: Lamont Poetry Prize (for Song)
 * 1986: Yale Younger Poets Award, selected by James Merrill
 * 1986: Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prize