Wendy Battin
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Wendy Battin | |
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| Born | May 27, 1953 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Died | December 21, 2015 (aged 62) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Cornell University University of Washington |
Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 – December 21, 2015) was an American poet.
Wendy Battin was born in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington. She taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College.
Her work has appeared in Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, The Nation, Mississippi Review, Threepenny Review, and Yale Review.
She was the director of CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine.[1]
She taught yoga, and lived in Mystic, Connecticut.[2]
Awards
- Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1982 Discovery / The Nation Award
- 1983 National Poetry Series, for Solar Wind
- Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, for Little Apocalypse
