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by Shelley Puhak
The winner of the eighth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Shelley Puhak.
Guinevere in Baltimore was chosen by the 2012 judge, Charles Simic, who will contribute a foreword to the collection when it is published by Waywiser in November 2013. This is the second collection for Ms Puhak, who is from Catonsville, Maryland.
"Daring and totally distinctive...[Puhak] has found her place and staked her poetic claim." —Kenyon Review
"One of the best books I was lucky enough to read in 2014." —The California Journal of Women Writers
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Shelley Puhak was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Maryland. She holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and an MA from the University of Delaware. Her first collection, Stalin in Aruba (Black Lawrence/Dzanc), was awarded the Towson Prize for Literature. Her latest collection is Guinevere in Baltimore (2013). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Carolina Quarterly, FIELD, and Ninth Letter. She teaches at Notre Dame of Maryland University, where she is Eichner Professor of Creative Writing.
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