Linda Gregg Wins Jackson Poetry Prize

Posted on April 22, 2009

Linda Gregg has won the 2009 Jackson Poetry Prize. She was selected as winner by poets Brenda Hillman, Edward Hirsch, and Charles Simic.

Gregg's books include All of It Singing (2008), In the Middle Distance (2006), Things and Flesh (1999), Chosen by the Lion (1994), The Sacraments of Desire (1991), Alma (1985), Eight Poems (1982) and Too Bright to See (1981), all published by Graywolf Press. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Whiting Writer’s Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Gregg has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She currently lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University. She received her B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University.

The Jackson Poetry Prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent who has published at least one book of recognized literary merit but has not yet received major national acclaim. The winner receives $50,000. Poets & Writers selects a group of poets each year who remain anonymous. The judging panel then selects the winner.