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Ellen Bryant Voigt
American poet
Ellen Bryant Voigt (born May 9, 1943) is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont.
Biography
[edit]Voigt was born May 9, 1943, in Danville, Virginia. She grew up in Chatham, Virginia, graduated from Converse College,[1] and received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She has taught at M.I.T. and Goddard College where in 1976 she developed and directed the nation's first low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. Since 1981 she has taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.[2]
She has published six collections of poetry and a collection of craft essays. Her poetry collection Shadow of Heaven (2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award and Kyrie (1995) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her collection Messenger[3](2008) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.[4] Her poetry has been published in several national publications. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont for four years and in 2003 was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2015, Voigt was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
She was married to Francis (Fran) Voigt, an administrator at Goddard College, until his death in 2018. Their tw
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Voigt, Ellen Bryant 1943–
PERSONAL:
Born May 9, 1943, in Danville, VA; daughter of Lloyd Gilmore (a farmer) and Missouri Eleanor (an elementary school teacher) Bryant; married Francis George Wilhelm Voigt (an educator, administrator, and corporate executive), September 5, 1965; children: Julia Dudley, William Bryant. Education: Converse College, B.A., 1964; University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1966.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Marshfield, VT.
CAREER:
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, technical writer for College of Pharmacy, 1965-66; Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, IA, instructor in English, 1966-69; Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, teacher of literature and writing, 1970-78, director of writing program, 1975-79; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, associate professor of creative writing, 1979-82; Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, visiting faculty member in Master's of Fine Arts program for writers, beginning 1981. Professional pianist. Teacher at writers' conferences, including Bread Loaf, Ropewalk, Aspen, Napa Valley, and Sandhills; gives poetry readings at schools and colleges; judge of poetry contests.
MEMBER:
Associated Writing Programs (member of board of directors).
AWARDS, HONORS:
Discovery Award, Ninety-second Street Young Men's Hebrew Associat
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Voigt, Ellen Bryant
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