Peter Campion

Peter Campion (born 1976) is an American poet.

He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA, and from Boston University with an MA.^[1] He taught at Washington College,^[2] Ashland University, and Auburn University.^[3][4] He currently teaches at University of Minnesota and heads the Department of Creative Writing there.^[5]

His work has appeared in AGNI,^[6] ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry,^[7] Slate,^[8] and The Yale Review. He won a Levis Reading Prize, for The Lions.^[9]

He was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University,^[10] a Theodore Morrison Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Guggenheim Fellow.^[11] He won a Pushcart Prize, and Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,

For five years, he edited the journal Literary Imagination, published by Oxford University Press, before turning over the editorship to Saskia Hamilton and Archie Burnett.^[12]

Works

• Other People. University of Chicago Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-226-09274-4. 
• The Lions. University of Chicago Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-09310-9. 
• El Dorado. University of Chicago Press. 2013. ISBN 9780226077253. 

References

External links

• http://www.petercampion.net
• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/peter-campion