Lee Upton
Author · 5 books
Lee Upton is the author of thirteen books. Her short story collection The Tao of Humiliation received the BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her awards include the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America; the Pushcart Prize; the National Poetry Series Award; and the Miami University Novella Award. Her collection of essays, Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition Boredom Purity & Secrecy, received ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Award in the category of books about writing. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, Poetry, Harvard Review, FIELD, American Poetry Review, and in numerous journals and anthologies.
