Linda Gregerson


Linda Gregerson is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan. In 2014, she was named as a Chancellor of the American Poets.

Life

Linda Gregerson received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1971, an M.A. from Northwestern University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She teaches American poetry and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan, where she has also directed the M.F.A. program in creative writing. She took up an appointment as the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College in the academic year 2009–2010.
She served as the judge for the 2008 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets and many other anthologies.

Awards

Selected works

Poetry

;CollectionsFire in the Conservatory The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep Waterborne Magnetic North
;List of poems
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Ceres lamenting2014
The death of Ananias2009

Non-fiction

The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
  • ''Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry''