Cynthia Huntington
Cynthia Huntingtonis an Americanpoet,memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing atDartmouth College.[1]In 2004 she was namedPoet LaureateofNew Hampshire.[2]
Life and career[edit]
Huntington has published numerous books of poetry, includingHeavenly Bodies(Southern Illinois University Press,2012), a finalist for the National Book Award. She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines includingTriQuarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review, AGNI,[3]Ploughshares,[4]andMassachusetts Review,and in anthologies includingThe Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present(Sribner, 2008) andContemporary Poetry of New England(Middlebury College Press, 2002).
She was born inMeadville, Pennsylvania,and received her M.A. from The Bread Loaf School of English atMiddlebury College.She is Professor of English and Creative Writing atDartmouth College.
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2004Poet LaureateofNew Hampshire.[5]
- 2012National Book Award(Poetry), finalist,Heavenly Bodies[6]
Huntington has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, TheFine Arts Work Centerin Provincetown, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as two fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts.Other awards include: the Robert Frost Prize fromThe Frost PlaceinFranconia, New Hampshire,the Jane Kenyon Award in Poetry, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize.[7]
Works[edit]
- Poetry
- Terra Nova(Southern Illinois University Press,2017)
- Fire Muse: Poems from the Salt House(Dartmouth College Press, 2016)
- Heavenly Bodies(Southern Illinois University Press,2012)[8]
- The Radiant(Four Way Books,2003, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize)
- We Have Gone to the Beach(Alice James Books,1996, winner of theBeatrice Hawley Award)
- The Fish-Wife(University of Hawaii Press, 1986, Pacific Poetry Series Comp Winner)
- Prose
- The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod(University Press of New England,1999)
References[edit]
- ^Dartmouth College > English Department FacultyArchived2008-09-21 at theWayback Machine
- ^Library of Congress > New Hampshire - State Poet Laureate
- ^"Agni Online > Cynthia Huntington".Archived fromthe originalon 2006-09-14.Retrieved2009-05-12.
- ^Ploughshares> Authors & Articles > Table of Contents
- ^Library of Congress > New Hampshire - State Poet Laureate
- ^"National Book Award Finalists Announced Today".Library Journal.October 10, 2012. Archived fromthe originalon December 6, 2012.RetrievedNovember 15,2012.
- ^Alice James Books Author Page, Cynthia HuntingtonArchived2009-09-26 at theWayback Machine
- ^"Southern Illinois University Press > Book Page >Heavenly Bodies".Archived fromthe originalon 2012-08-15.Retrieved2011-08-07.
External links[edit]
- Four Way Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page
- Alice James Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page
- Graywolf Press >Real Sofistikashunby Tony Hoagland > Excerpt discussing Huntington's work
- Poem:Orion Magazine> January/February 2010 Issue >All Wet and Shineby Cynthia Huntington
- Poems:terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments> No. 26 Fall/Winter 2010 > Three Poems by Cynthia Huntington
- Ploughshares> Authors & Articles > Cynthia Huntington
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- Writers from Pennsylvania
- Writers from Vermont
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
- American memoirists
- People from Orange County, Vermont
- American women memoirists
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women