Christina Pugh

Christina Pugh is the author of five previous books of poems including Stardust Media , winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and Perception , named one of the top poetry books of 2017 by Chicago Review of Books ; as well as a book of essays titled Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century . Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic , Poetry , American Poetry Review , Kenyon Review , Yale Review , and many other publications. A former Guggenheim fellow in...See more

Christina Pugh is the author of five previous books of poems including Stardust Media , winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and Perception , named one of the top poetry books of 2017 by Chicago Review of Books ; as well as a book of essays titled Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century . Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic , Poetry , American Poetry Review , Kenyon Review , Yale Review , and many other publications. A former Guggenheim fellow in poetry, she has received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. A recent visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, she is professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. See less