Printable view of Patricia Hooper

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Gastonia, NC

North Carolina US

Bio:

Patricia Hooper is the author of five books of poetry: Other Lives, At the Corner of the Eye, Separate Flights, Wild Persistence and Aristotle's Garden. She is also the author of a chapbook, The Flowering Trees, and four children's books. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atantic Monthly, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, The New Criterion, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Orion, and other magazines and anthologies.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Saginaw

Raised in:

Saginaw, MI

Michigan

Prizes won:

The Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America; The Bluestem Award for Poetry; The Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review; The Bernice W. Ames Award from the Poetry Society of America; The Writer's Community Residency Award from the National Writer's Voice; the Anita Claire Sharf Award from the University of Tampa Press, the Roanoke Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society.

Prefers to work with:

Adults