Dana Levin (born 1965) is a poet and Chair of Creative Writing and Literature and Associate Professor at the College of Santa Fe.[1][2] She also teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She has a B.A. from Pitzer College, and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was published by American Poetry Review (Copper Canyon Press) in 1999, and Copper Canyon brought out her second book, Wedding Day in 2005. Her work has appeared in many anthologies including The Poet’s Child, This Art, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry and Volt.
Awards
- Recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award
- Recipient of a 2004 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress
- Recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for poetry.
- Recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
References
External links
- Dana Levin Bio at Ploughshares
- Dana Levin at Poets.org
- Dana Levin radio interview at Cultural Energy
- Dana Levin interview at KRonline
- Dana Levin poems and essays at The American Poetry Review
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