Lloyd Schwartz

N/A

Somerville, MA 02145-2217

Phone:

617-666-3233

E-mail:

Author's Bio

Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston (MFA Program); Regular correspondent on classical music and the arts, Fresh Air with Terry Gross (NPR); Senior Editor of Classical Music, New York Arts (www.newyorkarts.net); Classical Music Editor, The Boston Phoenix, 1976-2013; Editor. Elizabeth Bishop Prose (FSG); Co-editor, Elizabeth Bishop, Poetry, Prose, and Letters (Library of America); Co-editor, Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (U of Michigan Press); Editor, Ploughshares, Vol. 5, No. 2

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, 1994; Associates of the Boston Public Library "Literary Light," 1995; NEA Creative Writing Fellowship Grant, 1990; Pushcart Prize, 1987; ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, 1980, 1987, 1990; Runner-up, Gustav Davidson Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 1990; Daniel Varoujan Prize, New England Poetry Club, 1984

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews

Academy of American Poets listing (Poets.org)

Poetry reading on Fresh Air, NPR (NPR)

Poetry Reading (Massachusetts Poetry Festival)

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Caucasian, Jewish

Prefers to work with:

Prisoners, Hospital patients

Born in:

Brooklyn, United States

Raised in:

New York, NY, United States

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Last updated: Nov 17, 2016