Benjamin Grossberg
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Biography
Benjamin S. Grossberg’s books of poetry include My Husband Would (University of Tampa, 2020), winner of the 2021 Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. He also wrote the novel, The Spring Before Obergefell (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 AWP Award Series James Alan McPherson Prize. He is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.
What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?
My work includes many cultural references to Judaism.
Published Works
Full Length Books:
My Husband Would (University of Tampa Press, 2020)
Space Traveler (University of Tampa Press, 2014)
Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press, 2009)
Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007)
Chapbooks:
As Are Right Fit (Harbor Editions, 2024)
An Elegy (Jacar Press, 2016)
The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel (Kent State University Press, 2006)
Novel:
The Spring Before Obergefell (University of Nebraska Press, 2024)
Edited Collection
The Poetry of Capital: Forty-Four Poets on Money in America (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Author Site
Links to Sample Works
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Education
University of Houston, Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature
University of Houston, M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Poetry
Rutgers University, B.A. in English, summa cum laude, General University Honors, English Departmental Honors