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Lee Upton

b. 1953

American poet

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Born 1953. Lee Upton is an American poet.

Lee Upton (born June 2, 1953, St. Johns, Michigan ) is an American poet, fiction writer, and literary critic. She earned a BA in journalism at Michigan State University, a master of fine arts (MFA) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Program for Poets & Writers, and a PhD in English literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Life She is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, including The Muse of Abandonment (1998, Bucknell University Press), Civilian Histories (2000, University of Georgia Press), Undid in the Land of Undone (2007, New Issues/Western Michigan University Press), and The Guide to the Flying Island (2009, Miami University Press). She is a former professor of English and writer in residence at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. In 1990, Upton collaborated with artist Ed Kerns and fellow poet Charles Molesworth on an exhibition of poetry and images at the Williams Center in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the New Republic, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and DoubleTake.

Awards 2008 Miami University Press Novella Prize Lyric Poetry Award Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award at the group's 95th annual awards ceremony April 28, 2005 at The New School in New York City. 1988 National Poetry Series

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American poet

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