Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ( University of Pittsburgh Press).
She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. [1] She also won the 1992 National Poetry Series Open Competition for The Dig, [2] [3] and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including Parnassus, [4] The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Slate [5] and Ploughshares, [6] and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry anthologies in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2000, [7] and the Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Emanuel is Director of the Writing Program, and Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, and a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. [8] She is married to the anthropologist, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, and they reside in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The early primate Microadapis lynnae is named after her. [9]
Emanuel was born in Mt. Kisco, New York and has lived, worked, and traveled in North Africa, Europe, and the Near East. She received a B.A. from Bennington College in 1972, and an M.A. from City College of New York in 1975, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa in 1983. [10]
Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ( University of Pittsburgh Press).
She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. [1] She also won the 1992 National Poetry Series Open Competition for The Dig, [2] [3] and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including Parnassus, [4] The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Slate [5] and Ploughshares, [6] and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry anthologies in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2000, [7] and the Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Emanuel is Director of the Writing Program, and Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, and a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. [8] She is married to the anthropologist, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, and they reside in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The early primate Microadapis lynnae is named after her. [9]
Emanuel was born in Mt. Kisco, New York and has lived, worked, and traveled in North Africa, Europe, and the Near East. She received a B.A. from Bennington College in 1972, and an M.A. from City College of New York in 1975, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa in 1983. [10]