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Alicia Ostriker [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Princeton, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
ostriker@rci.rutgers.edu
Bio: 

Taught literature and creative writing at Rutgers University for 40 years, now teaching in the Low-Residency Poetry MFA Program of Drew University. Has been elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (2015).

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Brooklyn
Raised in: 
NYC, NY
Website: 
https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ostriker/ho… [2]
Prizes won: 

William Carlos Williams Award for The Imaginary Lover; Paterson Poetry Award, San Frncisco State poetry Prize and National Book Award finalist for The Crack in Everything; National Book Award finalist for The Little Space: Poems Selected and new; National Jewish Book Award for The Book of Seventy

Identifies as: 
Jewish
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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/alicia_ostriker [2] https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ostriker/home.htm