Lucie Brock-Broido

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Lucie Brock-Broido (born 22 May 1956 in Pittsburgh, PA) is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She was described as an Elliptical Poet by critic Stephen Burt.

Lucie has long blonde hair and has an unusual affinity for horses and large cats, specifically, Maine Coon cats. She smokes True Blue cigarettes and is a restless thinker.

Brock-Broido is currently Director of Poetry in the Writing Division at Columbia University in New York City.

[edit] Selected works

  • Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)
  • The Master Letters (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)
  • A Hunger (Alfred A. Knopf,1988)

[edit] External links

  • Random House, The Borzoi Reader [1]