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Professor

Rosanna Warren

University of Chicago
Writer (poet); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
1997

Hanna Holborn Gary Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago. Author of Ghost in a Red Hat (2011); Departure (2003); Stained Glass (1993), which was named the  by the Ƶ of American Poets; Each Leaf Shines Separate (1984); and Snow Day (1981). She has also published a translation of Euripides’s Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully; 1995), a book of literary criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry (2008), and has edited several books, including The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field (Northeastern, 1989). “Rosanna Warren lives in our tarnished, everyday, ramshackle world of loss, anguish, and sacrifice," writes poet , “but she inhabits almost as vividly a realm of classic purity; and in some of her best, most moving poems she dwells in both regions at once, and within, as it seems, the same breath. It is a beautiful miracle of bilocation.” Her awards include the Pushcart Prize, the Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Ƶ of Arts and Letters, the May Sarton Prize, the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Ƶ of American Poets, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the Ingram Merrill Grant for Poetry, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award, theNation/“Discovery” Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Warren served as a  of the Ƶ of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. In the fall of 2000, she was The New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Ƶ in Rome. She is a contributing editor of Seneca Review and the former poetry editor of Daedalus.

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