Lynda Hull
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Lynda Hull (December 5, 1954 - March 29, 1994) was a United States poet.
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[edit] Life
Hull grew up in Newark, New Jersey. At the age of sixteen she won a scholarship to Princeton University, but ran away from home. During the next ten years she lived in many places including various Chinatowns following a marriage to an immigrant from Shanghai.[1]
In the early 1980s Hull started studying at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and earned her B.A. in Little Rock, and then her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She taught English at Indiana University, De Paul University, and in the MFA writing program at Vermont College. She worked as a poetry editor at the journal Crazyhorse.
Hull had published two collections of poetry when she died in a car accident in 1994 and a third was published posthumously. Her first book of poetry, Ghost Money, won the Juniper Prize in 1986. A Collected Poems was published in 2006.
[edit] Books
- Ghost Money (University of Massachusetts Press , 1986)
- Star Ledger (University of Iowa Press, 1991)
- The Only World (Harper Perennial, 1995)
- Collected Poems (Graywolf Press, October 31, 2006)
[edit] Prizes
- 1991 Carl Sandburg Award for Star Ledger
- 1990 Edwin Ford Piper Award for Star Ledger
- Juniper Prize for Ghost Money
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Collected Poems, pp 227 – 229
[edit] External links
- The Academy of American Poets Biographical Entry
- Essay by Laurence Goldstein on Lynda Hull's work from Iowa Review
- Review of The Only World in Fall 1995 issue of Ploughshares
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