Christina Pugh. Courtesy University of Rhode Island.
Christina A. Pugh is an American poet and academic.
Life[]
Pugh earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University, where she was awarded a Whiting Foundation dissertation fellowship.[1]
She has taught literature and creative writing at Harvard University, Northwestern University, Emerson College, and the College of Staten Island (City University of New York).[2] She is an associate professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also a consulting editor for Poetry magazine.[1]
Her poetry has been published in journals such as Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and Kenyon Review. Her scholarly articles have appeared in The Emily Dickinson Journal, Literary Imagination, and The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry, Post-1945 (2013), among others. She has written reviews for publications such as Poetry, Verse, Ploughshares, and Harvard Review.[1]
Recognition[]
Pugh has been awarded the Word Press First Book Prize (for Rotary), the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Associated Writing Programs’ Intro Journals Award, and the Grolier Poetry Prize.[2]
She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an individual artist fellowship in poetry from the Illinois Arts Council, and a faculty fellowship from the UIC Institute for the Humanities.[2]
At UIC, in 2012, she received UIC’s Graduate Mentoring Award, presented by the UIC Graduate College for outstanding mentoring of graduate students, in 2012; and was the recipient of a 2013-2014 UIC Teaching Recognition Award.[2]
Publications[]
- Gardening at Dusk (chapbook). Aurora, NY: Wells College Press, 2002.
- Rotary: Poems. Cincinnati, OH: Word Press, 2004.
- Twenty-third (by Christina Pugh, Lilli Carré & Mary-Jo Mostowy). Chicago: Poetry Center of Chicago, 2006.
- Restoration: Poems. Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, 2008.
- Grains of the Voice: Poems. Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Meet the Poet Christina Pugh
'Except where note, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Christina Pugh, Poetry Foundation. Web, Sep. 18, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Christina Pugh, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago. Web, Sep. 18, 2016.
- ↑ Search results = au:Christina Pugh, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 18, 2016.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Rotary" at Poetry 180
- Christina Pugh at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video
- Christina Pugh at YouTube
- Christina Pugh's Poems 6 poems (html & audio) at Illinois Poet Laureate
- Books
- Christina Pugh at Amazon.com
- About
- Christina Pugh at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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