Margaree Little is the author of REST (Four Way Books, 2018), winner of the 2018 Balcones Poetry Prize and the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She holds a B.A. in Literature and Culture in English, with Honors, from Brown University, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. Her poems, criticism, and creative non-fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, The Missouri Review, and The Southern Review, among other journals. Her translations from the Russian of Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam appear in American Poetry Review, Asymptote, and InTranslation (The Brooklyn Rail). With Jaquira Díaz, she created and co-edited Resistance, Change, Survival, an extended special feature in KROnline on issues of art, resistance, and the current political climate.
Margaree is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a 2015 John Ciardi Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a 2016 Bread Loaf Bakeless/ Camargo France Fellowship, a 2016-2018 Kenyon Review Fellowship, and a 2018 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, among other awards. Her manuscript in progress, THE GARGOYLES OF SAINTE-CHAPELLE, has been supported by a 2019 Research & Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She lives in Tucson and teaches at the University of Arizona.
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