Dana Levin

Dana Levin’s first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive many honors, including The John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares, the 2000 Wytter Bynner Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Poet’s Child, This Art (Copper Canyon), American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), The Atlantic Monthly and VOLT. Her new book is Wedding Day (Copper Canyon, 2005). Levin is a recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, fellowships from Breadloaf, the NEA and the Lannan Residency Program. She was a 2004 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress and received a 2004 Emerging Woman Writer’s Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College and directs the Creative Writing Program at College of Santa Fe.