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'' (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013) and ''Pact-Blood, Fever Grass'' (Ricochet Editions, 2013); 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 The 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. Provided by Wikipedia