Sarah Manguso. Photo by Marion Ettinger. Courtesy Amazon.
Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American poet and prose writer.
Life[]
Manguso was born in Massachusetts.[1] She received a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute, the graduate program at The New School,[2] and in the graduate program at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn.
Her poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, and twice in the Best American Poetry series.
Recognition[]
Manguso was the Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton in 2003-2004,[3] and has been awarded fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo,[4] and the MacDowell Colony, and a Pushcart Prize.
Reco[]
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n 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008) named a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle.[5]
Awards[]
- 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2011: Wellcome Trust Book Prize, shortlist, The Two Kinds of Decay
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2002.
- Siste Viator. New York: Four Way Books, 2006.
Non-fiction[]
- Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2007.
- The Two Kinds of Decay. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2008; London: Granta, 2011.
- The Guardians: An elegy. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2012.
- Ongoingness: The end of a diary. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2015.
Bill Murray reads "What We Miss" by Sarah Manguso
.Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ From the Fishouse: Poets: Sarah Manguso Bio
- ↑ The New School > Creative Writing > Summer Writers Colony > Courses
- ↑ Princeton University > Arts Lewis Center > The Hodder Fellowship: Fellows
- ↑ Yaddo Writers, June 1926 – December 2008
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle > 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2008 > 12/21/08
- ↑ Search results = au:Sarah Manguso, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 27, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Audio / video
- The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > What We Miss by Sarah Manguso
- Sarah Manguso at YouTube
- Audio Interview: WNYC Radio > The Leonard Lopate Show: Surviving a Major Illness > 09/05/08
- Psychjourney Podcast > Audio: Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, Interviews Sarah Manguso, Author of The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
- Books
- Sarah Manguso at Amazon.com
- About
- Sarah Manguso at Alice James Books
- Sarah Manguso Official website
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