Margaret Gibson (poet)
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Life
Margaret Gibson grew up in Richmond, VirginiaRichmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
, and was educated at Hollins College, and the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
. She went to Yaddo
Yaddo
Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400 acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment."...
in 1975.
Gibson has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Connecticut since 1993.
Gibson is married to the writer David McCain, and lives in Preston, Connecticut
Preston, Connecticut
Preston is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 4,688 at the 2000 census. The town includes the villages of Long Society, Preston City, and Poquetanuck.-History:...
.
Awards
- The Vigil, A Poem in Four Voices, a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1993
- Memories of the Future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti, co-winner of the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986-87
- Long Walks in the Afternoon, the 1982 Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets
- National Endowment for the Arts Grant
- Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship
- Grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts
- "Earth Elegy," the title poem of New and Selected Poems, won The James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry
- "Archaeology" was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2001