About Kathleen Peirce
Born 1956. Kathleen Peirce is an American poet, writer, scholar of English, academic, researcher and university teacher.
Kathleen Peirce (born 1956, Moline, Illinois, United States) is an American poet. She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA. She lives in Wimberley, TX and has one son.
Awards 1990 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Mercy 1993 Whiting Award 1998 Iowa Poetry Prize for The Oval Hour 2000 William Carlos Williams Award for The Oval Hour 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
Works "Anima Forma Corporis"; "Confession 3.10.18"; "Apart", Reading Between A&B "Measure", Blackbird "Redbird", Nothing to Say and Saying It "Anima Forma Corporis" , courtland Review
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