Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950 and raised in Rome. She has published more than ten collections of poetry in the UK with Carcanet, including To 2040 (2023), [To] the Last [Be] Human (2021), Runaway (2018) and FAST (2017), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Her collection PLACE (2012) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She has taught at the University of lowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently the Boyiston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. In 2017 she was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Author photo © Didier Morel
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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2012. The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2012. Judges Carol Ann Duffy (Chair), Michael Longley and David Morley have chosen...
