Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura is the author of ten collections of essays, poems, and translations. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Looking: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2006), her awards include Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as five Pushcart Prizes. Her work appears in the New Yorker, the New Republic, Orion, Paris Review, Emergence, and elsewhere. Her latest collections are It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin, 2015) and All the Fierce Tethers: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2019). She lives in Baltimore, MD.