Mary Szybist. Courtesy Annie Bloom's Books.
Mary Szybist (born 1970) is an American poet and academic.[1]
Life[]
Szybist was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,[1] and grew up in Pennsylvania.
She earned a B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching) from the University of Virginia.[2] She then attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow.
Szybist is an assistant professor of English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She also has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, the Tennessee Governor’s School for Humanities, the University of Virginia’s Young Writers’ Workshop and West High School in Iowa City.[3]
Szybist's poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI[4] Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Tin House, and The Kenyon Review,[5] and The Best American Poetry 2008.
Writing[]
In a feature covering the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award finalists in poetry, the Christian Science Monitor wrote: "...with her intelligence and understated grace, Szybist may become one of the best-known writers of her generation."[6]
Recognition[]
Szybist's poetry collection, Granted, won the 2002 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books, and was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.[7]
Awards[]
- 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship[8]
- 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowship
- 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
- 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
- 2002 Beatrice Hawley Award
- 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writing Award[9]
- Academy of American Poets Prize
Publications[]
- Granted. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2003.
- Incarnadine: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2013.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[10]
Mary Szybist reads from Incarnadine Poems, 2013 NBA Finalists Reading
Audio / video[]
- Visiting Writers Series (CD). Portland, OR: Division of Literature and Languages. English Department, Reed College, 2014.
See also[]
References[]
Notes=[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 About Mary Szybist, Triptych Readings. Web, Dec. 11, 2012.
- ↑ University of Virginia Program: Master of Teaching
- ↑ Library of Congress > News from the LOC > February 2, 2009
- ↑ AGNI Online > Do Not Desire Me Imagine Me by Mary Szybist
- ↑ The Kenyon Review > Yet Not Consumed by Mary Szybist
- ↑ The Christian Science Monitor > Books > National Book Critics Circle Nominees/Poetry > February 24, 2004
- ↑ English professor Mary Szybist nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award, Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin. Web, Dec. 11, 2012.
- ↑ NEA: 2009 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships (Poetry)
- ↑ Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Awards > Past Recipients
- ↑ Search results = au:Mary Szybist, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 3, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Two poems by Mary Szybist.
- Mary Szybist at the Poetry Foundation
- Web del Sol > Chapbook Feature > Mary Szybist, Poems from Granted
- PBS: The NewsHour > ArtBeat: Weekly Poem: Apology, by Mary Szybist
- Audio / video
- Books
- Mary Szybist at Amazon.com
- About
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