Divya Victor Explained

Divya Victor is a Tamil American poet and professor, known for her poetry book Curb which won the PEN Open Book Award.[1]

Divya Victor
Occupation:Poet, Professor
Notable Works:CURB

__TOC__

Early life and education

Divya Victor was born in Nagercoil, India.[2]

Victor earned her B.S. in English from Towson University, her M.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Temple University,[3] and her Ph.D. in English at University at Buffalo (SUNY).[3]

Victor has taught at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Nanyang Technological University,[4] which hosts Singapore's first Advanced Creative Writing Program. She has also served as the editor for Jacket2.[5] She is currently based in East Lansing and is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University.[6]

Awards and recognition

Victor's CURB, won the PEN America Open Book Award[7] and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.[8] Her earlier book, Natural Subjects, won the Bob Kaufman Award.[3] In 2012 she won the Mark Diamond Research Fund Award from the University at Buffalo.[9]

She has been a Riverrun Fellow at University of California San Diego's Archive for New Poetry, and a Writer in Residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit (L.A.C.E.).[9] MoCA Los Angeles, The National Gallery of Singapore, the L.A.C.E. and the MoMA have performed or installed her work.[9]

Critical reception

National Book Critics Circle Board member Diego Báez has described Victor as a "globally minded, locally rooted, exceedingly brilliant poet."[10] Mandana Chaffa, a National Book Critics Circle Fellow, describes her work as "a powerful political act" that is "yet it is first and foremost a poetic act, one that is not to be missed."[11] Her book CURB has been described by Cathy Park Hong as "Layered, rich, and epic…incredible collection that must be read and re-read."[12] Don Mee Choi called it "innovative…a powerful spell against empire's geography."[13] Pen America's judges citation for the Pen American Open Book Award describes CURB as "a remarkable book of poetry…a stunning historical document" and "brilliantly inventive."[14]

Amitava Kumar, the Indian writer and journalist, has remarked that Victor's Kith describes "so well our locked destinies and, at the same time, perhaps because of their wit, or vitality, or compassion, deliver us into liberated zones of heightened consciousness."[15]

Select bibliography

Books

Chapbooks and other short-form publications

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: PEN America presents literary awards in Manhattan ceremony . 27 May 2022 . ABC News . ABC News . 1 March 2022 . en.
  2. Web site: Divya Victor. Goodreads.com. 27 May 2022.
  3. Web site: Divya Victor. 27 May 2022 . Department of English Michigan State University. March 29, 2022 .
  4. Web site: Divya Victor / Intro. poetry.sg.
  5. Web site: 27 May 2022 . Divya Victor | Jacket2. jacket2.org.
  6. Web site: April 2018. Upenn.edu writing. 27 May 2022.
  7. Web site: CURB by Divya Victor is the Winner of Two Major Awards!. March 1, 2022.
  8. Web site: Divya Victor's 'Curb' Named 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner ·Claremont Graduate University. March 4, 2022 . Claremont Graduate University. 27 May 2022.
  9. Web site: Divya Victor. Poetry. Foundation. May 27, 2022 . Poetry Foundation. 27 May 2022.
  10. Web site: Book Marks reviews of by.
  11. Web site: Curb by Divya Victor review by Mandana Chaffa. October 12, 2021. 27 May 2022. LosAngelesReview.org.
  12. Web site: CURB. 27 May 2022. Nightboat.org.
  13. Web site: 27 May 2022 . Curb . Bookshop.org.
  14. Web site: Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Winners. February 28, 2022. 27 May 2022.
  15. Web site: Kith. SPDBooks.org . 27 May 2022.
  16. Web site: Fence, an independent literary press. fenceportal.org.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Divya Victor".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.