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Jill McDonough

American poet


Summary

American poet

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nameJill McDonough
imageJill McDonough 2110375.jpg
birth_date
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nationalityAmerican
alma_materStanford University,
Boston University
genrepoetry
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notableworks
spouse
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awardsWitter Bynner Fellowship,
Lannan Literary Award
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Boston University Lannan Literary Award

Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet.

Life

She grew up in North Carolina. She graduated from Stanford University and has an MA from Boston University. She taught in the Prison Education Program of Boston University. Currently, she is a Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston.

Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Oxford Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate. 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".

Awards

  • National Endowment for the Arts fellow
  • 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

Bibliography

Collections

  • Where you live, London: Salt, 2012, ,
  • Reaper, Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2017, ,
  • Here All Night, Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2019, ISBN 9781948579025
  • American Treasure, Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2022, ISBN 9781948579292

Anthologies

List of poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Preface2011

References

References

  1. "Jill McDonough | Boston Athenæum".
  2. "Habeas Corpus".
  3. Boston, UMass. "Jill.McDonough - UMass Boston".
  4. "Threepenny: McDonough, Accident".
  5. "Jill McDonough - Poems".
  6. (23 October 2007). ""Breasts Like Martinis"". Slate.
  7. (9 December 2009). "A Natural History: Jill McDonough".
  8. "NEA Writers' Corner: Jill McDonough".
  9. "Here All Night (eBook)".
  10. "American Treasure by Jill McDonough (EPUB)".
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