Jorie Graham is the author of sixteen collections of poems, including To 2040 (2023), [To] the Last [Be] Human (2022), Runaway (2018) and Fast (2017), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Her collection PLACE (2012) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her other Carcanet collections include Sea Change (2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000) and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has been widely translated and has received numerous awards, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the International Nonino Prize, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She lives in Massachusetts and is the Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric Emerita at Harvard University, USA. Author photo © Dino Ignani
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