Born: 22 February 1964, United States
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Lia Purpura’s collection of essays, On Looking, is forthcoming from Sarabande Press in 2006. She is the author of two collections of poems, Stone Sky Lifting (Ohio State University Press) and The Brighter the Veil (Orchises); a collection of essays, Increase (University of Georgia Press); and the translator, from Polish, of Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash (Farleigh Dickinson University Press). Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award. Her essays and poems have appeared in Agni, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review and Ploughshares. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Teaching/Writing Fellow in Poetry, she is Writer-in-Residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD.