Jill McDonough
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NationalityAmerican
AlmamaterStanford University,
Boston University
Boston University
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsWitter Bynner Fellowship,
Lannan Literary Award
Lannan Literary Award
Jill McDonough | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, Boston University |
| Genre | poetry |
| Notable awards | Witter Bynner Fellowship, Lannan Literary Award |
Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet.
She grew up in North Carolina. She graduated from Stanford University and has an MA from Boston University.[1] She taught in the Prison Education Program of Boston University.[2] Currently, she is a Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston.[3]
Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review,[4] Oxford Magazine,[5] The New Republic, and Slate.[6] She is married to bartender and musician Josey Packard. She has written of her marriage in an essay titled "A Natural History of my Marriage".[7]
Awards
- National Endowment for the Arts fellow[8]
- Fine Arts Work Center fellow
- Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center fellow
- Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University
- 2010 Witter Bynner Fellowship
- 2014 Lannan Literary Award
- 2009, 2013, 2014 Pushcart Prize
