Tufts Poetry Awards 2013 Winners & Finalists


Kingsley Tufts Award Winner

Marianne Boruch

The Book of Hours
(Copper Canyon Press)

 

Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner

Heidy Steidlmayer

Fowling Piece
(TriQuarterly)

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Boruch teaches creative writing at Purdue University and semi-regularly in the low-residency Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her poetry collections include Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan, 2008) and Poems: New and Selected (Oberlin, 2004).  She's written two books of essays on poetry—In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005) and Poetry's Old Air (Michigan, 1993)—and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana, 2011).  She has received Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright/visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh, fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and Isle Royale National Park. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, APR, the Yale Review, and the London Review of Books.


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Steidlmayer’s poems have appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Fowling Piece was also awarded the 2012 John C. Zacharis Award for the best debut from a Ploughshares contributor.

 

Kingsley Tufts Award Finalists

Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Blood Prism
(Ohio State University Press)

Paisley Rekdal, Animal Eye
(University of Pittsburgh Press)

 

Kate Tufts Award Finalists

Rebecca Morgan Frank, Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Press)

francine j. harris, Allegiance
(Wayne State University Press)

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