Elizabeth Spires

Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet.

Life

She was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.

Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review, and many other literary magazines and anthologies, She lives in Baltimore with her husband and her daughter, a graduate of Columbia University, and is a professor of English at Goucher College where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.

Awards

Spires has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association .

Works

Edited

• The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.

External links

• Audio: Elizabeth Spires reads You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country from The Wave-Maker (2008)
• Audio: Elizabeth Spires reads S n a i l from The Wave-Maker (2008)
• Interview: Elizabeth Spires Interview (2010) from KeepWriting.org
• Profile and Publication Info: The Whiting Foundation