Craig Morgan Teicher Explained

Craig Morgan Teicher
Education:Columbia University
Notableworks:The Trembling Answers
Spouse:Brenda Shaughnessy

Craig Morgan Teicher (born 1979) is an American author, poet and literary critic. His poetry collection, The Trembling Answers, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He currently lives in New Jersey.

Biography

Teicher was born in New York in 1979. He studied at Columbia University where he received an MFA in 2005.[1]

His poetry collection, The Trembling Answers, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He is the author of two other poetry collections, Brenda is in the Other Room and Other Poems, published in 2008, winner of the Colorado Poetry Prize and To Keep Love Blurry, published in 2012.[2] In 2010, Teicher published the prose collection, Cradle Book: Stories and Fables, and in 2014, the chapbook, Ambivalence and Other Conundrums. His debut collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness, was published by Graywolf Press in 2018.[3] Teicher is the director of digital operations at The Paris Review[4] and is a poetry editor of The Literary Review. Teicher lives in Verona, New Jersey, with his wife, the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, and their children.[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections and chapbooks
List of poems
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Prose

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Craig Morgan Teicher . Poetry Foundation . 13 January 2020.
  2. Web site: Craig Morgan Teicher . Poets.org . 13 January 2020.
  3. Web site: Toll . Martha Anne . 'We Begin In Gladness' Brings A Message Of Poetry's Importance In Today's World . NPR . 14 January 2020.
  4. Web site: Welcoming our New Digital Director, Craig Morgan Teicher . Paris Review . 13 January 2020.
  5. Lehman, David; and Hirsch, Edward. Best American Poetry 2016, p. 190. Simon and Schuster, 2016. . Accessed January 19, 2020. "Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970, and is currently associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark.... She lives with her husband, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their two children in Verona, New Jersey."
  6. Web site: Craig Morgan Teicher . BOA Editions . 13 January 2020.