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Kathleen Peirce
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Photo by George Krause
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| BACK | SELECTED POEMS | AUTHOR EVENTS About Kathleen Peirce Kathleen Peirce was born in 1956, the youngest of five daughters, and grew up in Rock Island, Illinois. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer’s workshop in 1988. She is the author of three previous collections: Mercy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), which won the Associated Writing Programs Prize, Divided Touch, Divided Color (Windhover Press, 1995), and The Oval Hour (University of Iowa, 1999), which won the Iowa Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. The Oval Hour was also a finalist for both the LA Times Book Award and Lenore Marshall Prize from The Academy of American Poets. She lives in Wimberly, Texas, with her 16 year-old son and assorted animals, and has been a faculty member of Texas State University’s MFA program since 1993. IN HER OWN WORDS On Writing: "The demand is to stay in the physical world as deeply as possible and to stay in my interior world as deeply as possible simultaneously." On Texas: "I always topped quota, but it was not exactly what I was made for." |
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