Wendy Battin

Wendy Battin (born 1953 Wilmington, Delaware) is an American poet.

Life
She graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington. She taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College.

Her work has appeared in Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, The Nation, Mississippi Review, Threepenny Review, and Yale Review.

She is the director of CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive.

She teaches yoga, and lives in Mystic, Connecticut.

Awards

 * Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
 * Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
 * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 * 1982 Discovery / The Nation Award
 * 1983 National Poetry Series, for Solar Wind
 * Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, for Little Apocalypse