Miriam Levine


Miriam Levine is an American memoirist, poet and novelist. Levine was the first Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.
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Biography

Levine was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of Gertrude and Joseph Levine. She spent her early years in Passaic, New Jersey and earned a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University and a PhD in British Literature from Tufts University.
Levine was a professor at Framingham State University; and, before that, taught at Emerson College, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Northeastern University.

Awards

Levine, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Awarded a Pushcart Prize, she was a resident fellow at Yaddo; Le Chateau de Lavigny International Writers' Colony, Switzerland; and Millay Colony for the Arts.

Works