Elizabeth Spires

Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.

Early life and education Spires was raised in Circleville, Ohio. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.

Career Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.

Awards and honors She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.

Selected works

Poetry

Children's books

Edited The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.

Anthologies