Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in
Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Howe has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her major works include poetry such as ''One Crossed Out'', ''Gone'', and ''Second Childhood'', the novels ''Nod'', ''The Deep North'', and ''Indivisible,'' and collected essays ''The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation''. She was awarded the 2009
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the
Poetry Foundation. She is also the recipient of the Gold Medal for Poetry from the
Commonwealth Club of California In addition, her ''Selected Poems'' received the 2001
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the Most Outstanding Book of Poetry Published in 2000 from the Academy of American Poets and she was a finalist for the 2015
International Booker Prize She has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice. She is
professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the
University of California, San Diego. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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