Professor Emerita
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Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, English Literature, 1991
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, English Literature and Writing, 1988
B.A., Middlebury College, French and English, 1980
Scholarly Focus
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- British, Irish, and American Modern Fiction
Publications
Books
Misery Prefigured , winner of Crab Orchard Award, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001
Foiled Again , winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, Ivan R. Dee, 2007
Bright Moves , winner of Samuel French Morse Prize, Northeastern University Press, 1990