Linda Gregerson

Recognized both as a poet who has received major awards for her collections of poems, and as a scholar of English Renaissance literature. Her poetry puts a high strain on syntax and stanza construction, and pursues ethically urgent arguments with dramatic flair and voicing. Her book of poems, Waterborne (2002), won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Magnetic North (2007) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her subsequent collections, The Selvage, (2012) and Prodigal: New and Selected Poems (2015) continue her precisely observed and rendered examination of how little the world will spare us. Also published two books of literary criticism The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995) and Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001). Honors include awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poetry Society of America, and the Modern Poetry Association, fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Bogliasco Foundations, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Arts.