Life

She is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin of Yardley, Pa.

Phillis Levin graduated from Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...

 in 1976, and The Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 in 1977.

Her poems were published in Poets for Life, Poetry, Ploughshares, AGNI, The New Yorker.

She was Associate Professor of English at The University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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, is visiting professor in the graduate writing program at New York University

New York University

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, and is the poet-in-residence and teaches at Hofstra University

Hofstra University

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She is an elector of the American Poets’ Corner of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, and the co-director (with Vijay Seshadri) of the Sarah Lawrence Language Exchange. She is a member of PEN

International PEN

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On May 17, 2008, she married Jack Shanewise, at the Century Association

Century Association

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 in New York.

They live in New York

New York

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Awards

• 1988 Norma Farber First Book Award
• 1999-2000 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
  Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
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• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
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• 1995 Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia
• 2006 Richard Hugo Award from Poetry Northwest
• 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Works

• "End of April", Poetry 180, Library of Congress

Anthologies

• Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2008 (Alhambra Publishing, 2008)
• Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003)
• The Best American Poetry 1998 (Scribner, 1998)
• The Best American Poetry 1989 (Scribner, 1989)

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