Martha Zweig
Martha M. Zweig is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning.
Life
She was raised in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, where she attended the Quaker Moorestown Friends School. She earned her B.A. and an M.A.and a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan; and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She lives in Hardwick, Vermont, and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice.Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Manoa, Notre Dame Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Paris Review, The Progressive, Willow Springs.
Honors and awards
- 1999 Whiting Award
Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections- Monkey Lightning
Ploughshares
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Category:Living people
Category:Poets from New Jersey
Category:Moorestown [Friends School alumni]
Category:People from [Caledonia County, Vermont]
Category:People from Moorestown, New Jersey
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:Warren [Wilson College alumni]
Category:Writers from Vermont
Category:20th-century American poets
Category:Writers from Burlington County, New Jersey
Category:20th-century [American women poets]