Printable view of Jay Hopler

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Tampa, FL

Florida US

Email:

jhopler@usf.edu

Bio:

Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970 and he has earned degrees from Purdue University (Ph.D., American Studies), The Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A., Creative Writing/Poetry), The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars (M.A., Creative Writing/Poetry) and New York University (B.A., English and American Literature). His poetry, essays and translations have appeared, or are forthcoming, in numerous magazines and journals.

Hopler died at the age of fifty-one on June 15, 2022.

Born in:

San Juan,

Puerto Rico

Website:

https://www.jayhopler.com [2]

Prizes won:

2010/2011 Rome Fellowship in Literature (The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a Gift from the Drue Heinz Trust) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome 2009 Whiting Writers' Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation 2009 Marfa Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award 2007 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book News 2006 Florida Book Award 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (chosen by Louise Glück)