Leslie McGrath
Leslie McGrath (born June 15, 1957, in Bridgeport, CT) is an American poet and former managing editor of Drunken Boat, an online journal of the arts.[1] She is the author of the collection Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (2009), a finalist for the 2010 Connecticut Book Award in poetry, and the chapbook Toward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award.
Early life
McGrath received her MFA in literature and poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars after receiving an MA in psychology from Wesleyan University.
Poetry
Her poems have appeared frequently online and in print, and have been anthologized both in the US and India.
Recognition
McGrath was awarded the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
She has served on the judges’ panels for the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission.
Her literary interviews have been published in The Writer's Chronicle and have also been aired on public radio. McGrath serves on the advisory board for The Word Works, a literary press in Washington, D.C., which sponsors The Washington Prize, as well as the board of The James Merrill House in Stonington, CT.[2]
McGrath edited and published (through Drunken Boat Press, 2010) the posthumous poetry collection of Reetika Vazirani, Radha Says.
References
- ↑ http://www.drunkenboat.com/ accessed 01/02/2010.
- ↑ "The James Merrill House - Museum & Writer-in-Residence Program". jamesmerrillhouse.org.
External links
- McGrath's poetry in "Slate"
- McGrath's poetry in The Diagram
- McGrath's poetry in From the Fishhouse
- McGrath's poetry in Agni online
- Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage
- Radha Says
- McGrath's poetry in PANK
- In conversation with Jane Hirshfield on women in American poetry for VIDA