2010 Presenters
Jill McDonough
Jill McDonough has taught creative writing to incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and Slate, among others. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Her new book, Habeas Corpus, is “a collection of striking, absorbing poetry… a unique and necessary debut" according to Sarah Crown of Poetry London. Author Gail Mazur says of McDonough: “She’s a daring poet, formally sophisticated yet pushing the boundaries of form at every turn.”
LINKS:
McDonough's biography in the National Endowment for the Arts
Links to McDonough poetry in Slate Magazine
McDonough's poetry in Poetry Mountain
McDonough's poetic response to the question: "What is poetry?"
Publisher's page on Habeas Corpus
