Lia Purpura

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Lia Purpura, American poet and educator, was born February 22, 1964 in Mineola, New York. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

[edit] Works

She is the author of "The Brighter the Veil" (winner of the Towson University Prize in Literature), and Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash, translated on a Fulbright year in Poland. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching / Writing Fellow in Poetry, she has published poems and essays in many magazines, including Agni Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Field, and Ploughshares.

[edit] Awards

She was awarded a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose. Her essay collection On Looking was published by Sarabande Press in 2006. Her collection of essays, Increase, won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2000. Her collection of poems, Stone Sky Lifting, won the Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award and was also published in 2000.

Lia Purpura was named 2004 Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio and is currently Writer-in-Residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland; she is also on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA Program in Tacoma, Washington. Her essay "Autopsy Report" was a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays 2004.