Miriam Bird Greenberg
Miriam Bird Greenberg is an American poet. She is author of four poetry collections: In the Volcano's Mouth, which won the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, the chapbooks All night in the new country and Pact-Blood, Fever Grass ; and the limited-edition letterpress artist book The Other World, which won the 2019 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize, designed in collaboration with Keith Graham. She was awarded a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry Foundation. Her poems have appeared in magazines such as Granta, Missouri Review, The Baffler, and Poetry.
Raised on a farm in rural northeast Texas, she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master of Fine Arts from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Awards
- 2019
- 2017-2018 Singapore Creative Writer in Residence, National University of Singapore
- 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize
- 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry
- 2012-2013 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship
- 2010-2012 Wallace Stegner Fellowship for Poetry
- 2010
- 2002 Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets fellow
Works
Books- 2016: In the Volcano's Mouth, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
- 2019: The Other World, Center for Book Arts, New York
- 2013: All night in the new country, Sixteen Rivers Press, San Francisco
- 2013: Pact-Blood, Fever Grass, Ricochet Editions,, Los Angeles
- “• ”, Poetry, December 2019
- ”] and ”], The Baffler, June 2019
- ”], Poetry, March 2019
- , All the Little Wild Things, January 2019
- , Granta, December 2018
- and, Hunger Mountain, spring 2018
- , Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, March 2016
- , Rove Poetry, 2016
- , Lambda Literary Spotlight, 2016
- , The Baffler, 2016
- , The Colorado Review, 2014
- , Poetry, November 2010
- , Poetry, November 2010
- , Smartish Pace 17
- , Killing the Buddha, August 2010
- , No Tell Motel, August 2010
- , Diagram 8.2
- , The Fairy Tale Review, January 2019