About Wendy Battin
Lived 1953 – 2015 (aged 62). Wendy Battin was an American poet, writer and university teacher.
Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 – December 21, 2015) was an American poet.
Life Wendy Battin was born in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington. She taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College.
Her work has appeared in Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, The Nation, Mississippi Review, Threepenny Review, and Yale Review.
She was the director of CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive.
She taught yoga, and lived in Mystic, Connecticut.
Awards Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1982 Discovery / The Nation Award 1983 National Poetry Series, for Solar Wind Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, for Little Apocalypse
Works "One Man Watches a Horse Race"; "Coelacanth", Eclectica "The Women on the Ward", Eclectica "THE NEWS FROM MARS", The Blue Moon Review "News and Sundries", Blue Penny Quarterly, Fall 1995 "Seven", fieralingue "And the Two Give Birth to the Myriad of Things", fieralingue "Mercy 1"; "Mir, the World, or is it Peace", Hamilton Stone Review "Eve, Before"; "Drosophila"; "The Two of Cups"; "Triptych", Kimera: A Journal of Fine Writing "On a Line by Su Tung-p'o"; "Another Line from Su Tung-p'o"; "A Contract"; "Aubade: How Truth Will Out", Mississippi Review "Liberty", Salt River Review "Kali Yuga", Tattoo Highway "Silver"; "Aubade, The Truth Will Out"; "One Man Watches a Racehouse"; "Seven"; "How Nothing Happens"; "The Telling", Pares, University of Chile
Anthologies
Don’t just read it —
keep it.
Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.
- E-book
- Audio
- Video
Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free
Important facts
People in Wendy Battin's life
Named in this biography and alive at the same time
Contemporaries
People whose lives overlapped Wendy Battin's
Frequently asked questions
Who was Wendy Battin?
American writer (1953–2015)
When was Wendy Battin born?
Wendy Battin was born on 27 May 1953 in Wilmington.
When did Wendy Battin die?
Wendy Battin died on 21 December 2015 in Mystic.
What was Wendy Battin's occupation?
Wendy Battin was a poet, writer and university teacher.
What nationality was Wendy Battin?
Wendy Battin was American.
Sources & further reading
Cite this page
APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Wendy Battin. https://biography.guide/wendy-battin/
MLA: "Wendy Battin." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/wendy-battin/.
Chicago: "Wendy Battin." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/wendy-battin/.
Data last updated: 2026-09-20 · Spot an error? Report a correction.
Page generated 2026-09-27 05:00 UTC