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American poet
Sandy Solomon
BornBaltimore, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Chicago
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Warren Wilson College (MFA)
Notable awardsAgnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (1995)
Website
www.sandysolomon.com

Sandy Solomon (born Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet.

Life

Solomon was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from the University of Chicago.

She worked in Washington, DC for the National Urban Coalition and then directed two groups: the National Neighborhood Coalition and the Coalition on Human Needs. She received an MA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, and Partisan Review.

Her book, Pears, Lake, Sun, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1996. She held fellowships from the Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, in 1997-8 and 1998-9.

She participated in Poets Against the War.

Awards

Works

Individual poems include:

Book:

References

  1. ^ "Sandy Solomon | Poet Biography".
  2. "Sandy Solomon". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  3. "Winter 1992 | the gettysburg review". public.gettysburg.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-06-20.
  4. "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
  5. "Poets Against the War". www.poetsagainstthewar.org. Archived from the original on 2003-02-01.

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