Dana Levin

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Biography

Dana Levin’s fifth book is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon, 2022), a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Lannan Literary Selection. Recent books include Banana Palace (2016) and Sky Burial(2011), which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre (1999), received the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück. Levin is a grateful recipient of many honors, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, and the Library of Congress, as well as from the Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.

Published Works

Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022)
Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)
Sky Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2011)
Wedding Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
In the Surgical Theatre (American Poetry Review/Copper Canyon Press, 1999)

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Links to Sample Works

• The Nation, “Immigrant Song”
• American Poetry Review, “How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now”
• The Yale Review, “Appointment”

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Undergraduate, Graduate, Craft of Poetry, Poetry, Literature, Creative Writing, Mentorship

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