Illinois Authors

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.

• "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.