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Lia
Purpura Reads
Her Poems
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She is also the author of The Brighter the Veil (winner of the Towson University Prize in Literature), and Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash, translated on a Fulbright year in Poland. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching / Writing Fellow in Poetry, she has published poems and essays in many magazines, including Agni Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review and Ploughshares. Lia Purpura was named 2004 Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio and is currently Writer-in-Residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland; she is also on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA Program in Tacoma, Washington. Her essay Autopsy Report was a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays, 2004. Listen
to Lia Purpura read her poems
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Lia Purpura was awarded
a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose. Her essay collection
(tentatively titled On
Looking) is forthcoming from Sarabande Press in 2006. Her collection
of essays, Increase, won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative
Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2000. Her collection of poems, Stone
Sky Lifting, won the Ohio State
University Press / The Journal Award and was published in 2000 as well.
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