Miriam Levine

Miriam Levine (born 1939) is an American memoirist, poet and novelist. Levine was the first Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.

Biography Levine was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of Gertrude and Joseph Levine. She spent her early years in Passaic, New Jersey and earned a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University and a PhD in British Literature from Tufts University.

Levine was a professor at Framingham State University; and, before that, taught at Emerson College, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Northeastern University. is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Awarded a Pushcart Prize, she was a resident fellow at Yaddo; and Millay Colony for the Arts.

Works Saving Daylight (2019) The Dark Opens (2008) In Paterson: a Novel (2002) Devotion (1993) A Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (1984) The Graves of Delawanna (1981) To Know We Are Living (1976) Friends Dreaming (1974)