Mary Szybist (born 20 September 1970) is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Incarnadine.
Life She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching)University of Virginia Program: Master of Teaching from the University of Virginia, and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow.
Szybist's Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013) was the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry, and her collection Granted (Alice James Books, 2003) won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books and the 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. In a feature on NBCCA poetry finalists, the Christian Science Monitor wrote:
Szybist's poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI,AGNI Online > Do Not Desire Me Imagine Me by Mary Szybist Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Tin House, and The Kenyon Review,The Kenyon Review > Yet Not Consumed by Mary Szybist and The Best American Poetry 2008.
Szybist is an associate professor of English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and a faculty member at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She also has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, the Tennessee Governor’s School for Humanities, the University of Virginia’s Young Writers’ Workshop, and West High School in Iowa City.Library of Congress > News from the LOC > February 2, 2009
Honors and awards 2019 Laureate of The George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters 2013 National Book Award for Poetry 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Literature FellowshipNEA: 2009 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships (Poetry) 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowship 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2002 Beatrice Hawley Award 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award Academy of American Poets Prize
Bibliography
Poetry
Granted, Alice James Books, 2003,
List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected inTroubadourOn a spring day in Baltimore the art teacher asks the class to draw flowers2011
References
External links Mary Szybist: Official Website Web del Sol > Chapbook Feature > Mary Szybist, Poems from Granted PBS: The NewsHour > ArtBeat: Weekly Poem: Apology, by Mary Szybist Kenyon College > The Kenyon Collegian > Interview with Mary Szybist Poetry Foundation > In Tennessee I Found a Firefly, by Mary Szybist