Warsaw, Poland), multiple residences at the MacDowell Colony, and a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. Discography Collaborations The Poulenc Trio: Creation, featuring Lia Purpura, poet, (Delos/Naxos, 2016) Bibliography Essays Poetry Collections King Baby (Poems) Alice James Books, 2008, Stone Sky Lifting (Poems) Ohio State University Press, 2000, The Brighter the Veil (Poems) Orchises Press, 1996, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful'' (Poems) Penguin Press, 2015, Translations (Translation) List of poems Awards and honors 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction 2009: Towson University Prize in Literature 2007: Beatrice Hawley Award 2004: NEA Literature Fellowship in Prose 2000: Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction 2000: Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award References Sources Alice James Books > Author Page > Lia Purpura External links NEA Writer's Corner: Lia Purpura Audio: Wired for Books > Lia Purpura Interview with Lia Purpura by Margaret MacInnis Interviews > Smartish Pace > An Interview with Lia Purpura > by Laura Klebanow Guggenheim Fellowship Bookslut: Interview by Noah Charney When Beauty Stretches: Apercu Quarterly The Journal: Ohio State University Interview WYPR Maryland Morning. Interview with Tom Hall WYPR Maryland Morning : Rough Likeness Sarabande Books: "Author Speaks" 1964 births Living people Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Loyola University Maryland faculty Oberlin College alumni The New Yorker people American women poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American translators 21st-century American translators American women essayists University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty University of Iowa faculty University of Alabama faculty Eastman School of Music faculty People from Mineola, New York Poets from New York (state) 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists Women music educators American women academics