Lynn Emanuel
Professor of English
412-624-4036
emanuel@pitt.edu
CL 609-C
Lynn Emanuel holds a BA from Bennington
College, an MA from City College of New York, where she studied
with Adrienne Rich,
and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the Director
of the Writing Program.
She has taught at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Bennington Writers' Conference, The Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Vermont College Creative Writing Program.
Research and Publications: She is the author of three collections of poetry; Hotel Fiesta, The Dig and Then, Suddenly--. Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and in Best American Poetry in 1994, 1995, 1998, and 1999. She has been a poetry editor for the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and a member of the Literature Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Honors and Awards: She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the National Poetry Series Award, and, for Then Suddenly--, the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Currently, she is a judge for the James Laughlin Award sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.
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Teaching
Graduate Courses
- Poetry Workshop
- Topics in Poetry
Undergraduate Courses
- Poetry Writing
- Topics in Poetry
Other Duties & Service
- Co-Director of the Writing Program
- Advisor, Nidus
