Miriam Bird Greenberg
Miriam Bird Greenberg is an American poet. She is author of four poetry collections: In the Volcano's Mouth, which won the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, the chapbooks All night in the new country and Pact-Blood, Fever Grass ; and the limited-edition letterpress artist book The Other World, which won the 2019 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize, designed in collaboration with Keith Graham. She was awarded a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her poems have appeared in magazines such as Granta, Missouri Review, The Baffler, and Poetry.
Raised on a farm in rural northeast Texas, she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master of Fine Arts from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, where she held a James A. Michener fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California.Awards
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- “• ”, Poetry, December 2019
- ”] and ”], The Baffler, June 2019
- ”], Poetry, March 2019
- , All the Little Wild Things, January 2019
- , Granta, December 2018
- and , Hunger Mountain, spring 2018
- , Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, March 2016
- , Rove Poetry, 2016
- , Lambda Literary Spotlight, 2016
- , The Baffler, 2016
- , The Colorado Review, 2014
- , Poetry, November 2010
- , Poetry, November 2010
- , Smartish Pace 17
- , Killing the Buddha, August 2010
- , No Tell Motel, August 2010
- , Diagram 8.2
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