Joanna Klink
American poet
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| Intro | American poet | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| is | Poet Writer | ||||||
| Work field | Literature | ||||||
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| Birth | 15 July 1969 | ||||||
| Age | 55 years | ||||||
| Star sign | Cancer | ||||||
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Biography
Joanna Klink is an American poet. She was born in Iowa City, Iowa. She received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and for many years taught in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Montana. Her new book, The Nightfields, is forthcoming from Penguin Books in 2020.
Publications
- They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
- Circadian (Penguin Books, 2007)
- Raptus (Penguin Books, 2010)
- Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy (Penguin Books, 2015)
- The Nightfields (Penguin Books, 2020)
Honors and awards
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2003)
- Briggs-Copeland Poet, Harvard University (2008-2011)
- Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Award (2012)
- Civitella Ranieri (2012, 2017)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013)
- Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship (2018)
- The Bogliasco Foundation (2018)
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)