Alan Shapiro

This article is about the professor of English and Creative Writing. For the American educator and educational reformer, please see Alan Shapiro (education reformer). For the American science fiction and media theorist, please see Alan N. Shapiro.

Alan Shapiro (born 1952) is an American poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.^[1] He is the author of nine poetry books,^[1] including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy. He received the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Book Prize.^[1] He was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.^[1] In 2005, Shapiro won the North Carolina Book Award for poetry, for Tantalus In Love.^[2]

Alan Shapiro was elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] In addition to poetry, Alan Shapiro has also published two personal memoirs, Vigil and The Last Happy Occasion.^[3]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e houghtonmifflinbooks
^ "N.C. Book Awards for fiction, poetry, go to Naumoff, Shapiro". The News & Observer: The Chapel Hill News, p. A4, Nov. 20, 2005.
^ Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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