Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Born Lisa Gluskin
January 31, 1968
Nationality American
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Morse Poetry Prize, Frost Place Chapbook Prize

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born January 31, 1968) is an award-winning American poet. Stonestreet's second book, The Greenhouse, was awarded the 2014 Frost Place Chapbook Prize and published by Bull City Press in August 2014. Her first book, Tulips, Water, Ash, was published by Northeastern University Press, and chosen by Jean Valentine as the last Morse Poetry Prize, before its suspension in 2009 .[1][2]

Education and career

Stonestreet is a graduate of Yale University, and she received an MFA in Creative Writing from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College where she received the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship[3] in Creative Writing. Her poems have been anthologized in Best New Poets 2005 and Best New Poets 2006 (Samovar Press), and they have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The Iowa Review, Bellingham Review, Blackbird,[4] and Third Coast.[5] Her honors include fellowships from Millay Colony for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. She lives with her husband and son in Oakland, California, where she works as a writer, teacher, and editor.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Northeastern University Press". Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Poets & Writers Magazine". Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ "FY 2004 JAVITS FELLOWSHIP CANDIDATES" (PDF). Retrieved February 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Blackbird. "Two Poems by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet". Retrieved February 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet Website. "Bio".
  6. ↑ Bull City Press. "2014 Frost Place Chapbook Competition Winner: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet". Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ Cream City Review. "Contest Winners Announced!". Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Finding Aid to the San Francisco Foundation Records, 1937-2012, 1937-2012". Retrieved 5 February 2014.

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