Marilyn Nelson

Marilyn Nelson's third book, The Homeplace, was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award. Her fifth book, The Field's of Praise: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award and won the 1999 Poet's Prize. Her rendering of "Hecuba" appears in the Euripides I volume of the Penn Greek Drama Series. Her new book, Carver: A Life in Poems, won the Boston 2001 Post/Hornbook Award and was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. She has held two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, and ACLS Contemplative Practices Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2001 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.