Linda Gregg
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Linda Gregg is an award-winning American poet. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Houston, and the University of North Carolina. She currently lives in New York and teaches as a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
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Once married to poet Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg has been the recipient a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Whiting Writer's Award, as well as multiple Pushcart Prizes. She was the 2003 winner of the Sara Teasdale Award and the 2006 PEN/Voelcker Award winner for Poetry. Her published books of poetry include Chosen By The Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, Too Bright to See, Things and Flesh, and her most recent publication, In the Middle Distance (Graywolf Press, 2006).
Linda Gregg was born in Suffern, New York, and grew up in Marin County, California. Much of her poetry is inspired by her extensive travels. Her work has received enormous critical praise for its soaring lyrical depictions of grief and loss, and the strange strengths and beauty she mines from them. Joseph Brodsky has said of Linda Gregg's earlier work, "The blinding intensity of Ms. Gregg's lines stains the reader's psyche the way lightning or heartbreak do."
[edit] External Links
- Linda Gregg at The Academy of American Poets
- Linda Gregg at Graywolf Press
- Linda Gregg at Princeton University
