Marianne Boruch is an American poet. She graduated from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1979, and after teaching at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and at the University of Maine at Farmington, went on to develop the MFA program in creative writing at Purdue University and was its director until 2005. She began teaching there in 1987 as well as at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
Boruch is the author of several poetry collections, including:
She is also the author of two books of essays:
She has also written a memoir:
Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, FIELD, Poetry 180, Poets of the New Century, Poets Reading: The FIELD Symposia, Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Poets, American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets, and elsewhere.
Residency/Fellowship, The Bellagio Center, the Rockefeller Foundation, 2009. Visiting Artist Residency, The American Academy in Rome, 2009. Poems chosen for Best American Poetry, 2009 and 1997. The Strousse Award, for poems in Prairie Schooner, 2008. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2005-2006. Artist-in-Residence, Isle Royale National Park, 2006. Two Pushcart Prizes, 2001 and 1988. Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1999 and 1984. Terrence DePres Award from Parnassus, 1994.