Kathleen Graber

Kathleen Graber is an American poet and professor of creative writing and poetry at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has also taught at New York University.

Early life and education

Graber was raised in Wildwood, New Jersey where she still owns a home. She studied under poet Stephen Dunn and went on to earn her BA in philosophy from New York University. She quit teaching middle school English to afford herself the ability to enroll in an MFA program and pursue a career in poetry. Kathleen said of the experience, "Most poets live humble lives, I think, and maybe that is by temperament or design, or maybe it is just a necessity."

Awards

Graber has earned many awards for her work including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2003), the Amy Lowell Traveling award, a National Endowment for the Arts award and the Guggenheim award. She is a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University, a National Book Award finalist and a National Book Critics Circle finalist.

2020 UNT Rilke Prize.

Works

Correspondence Ardmore, PA: Saturnalia Books, 2005

The Eternal City: poems Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010

The River Twice Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019

References

Living people

American women poets

Virginia Commonwealth University faculty

New York University alumni

New York University faculty

21st-century American poets

21st-century American women writers

People from Wildwood, New Jersey

Poets from New Jersey

1959 births

American women academics

The New Yorker people

20th-century American poets