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Christina Pugh

Born: in Buffalo, NY
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Pugh lives in Evanston.

Biography: Christina Pugh is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Consulting Editor for Poetry magazine. She has published numerous critical articles on poetry and poetics.


Awards:
  • "Rotary"
  • -- Word Press First Book Prize, 2003
  • "Other Awards and Honors"
  • -- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2015
  • -- Ucross Foundation Residency Fellowship, 2005
  • -- Grolier Poetry Prize, 2000
  • -- Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Poetry Magazine, 2000
  • -- AWP Intro Journals Award, 2000
  • -- Whiting Fellowship for the Humanities, 1997-1998
  • -- Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America
  • -- Individual artist fellowship in poetry, Illinois Arts Council
  • -- 4-Nominations for the Pushcart Prize

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/faculty/prof/cpugh/bio.htm
Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christina-pugh


Selected Titles

Grains of the voice :
ISBN: 0810152282 OCLC: 801996924

TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill. : ©2013.

Perception /
ISBN: 1935536885 OCLC: 957705002

A suite of minimalist lyric poems punctuated by prose poems explores the mysteries of visual perception and its relationship to poetic language.

Restoration :
ISBN: 0810152053 OCLC: 221160755

TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill. : ©2008.

Rotary :
ISBN: 1932339345 OCLC: 61455730

Word Press, Cincinnati, OH : ©2004.

 

 

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