Craig Morgan Teicher

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.

Craig Morgan Teicher
Born1979 (age 41–42)
EducationColumbia University
Notable worksThe Trembling Answers
Notable awardsLenore Marshall Poetry Prize
SpouseBrenda Shaughnessy
Website
www.craigmorganteicher.com

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.[1][5]

Selected publications

Poetry
  • Brenda is in the Other Room and Other Poems, (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008)[1]
  • To Keep Love Blurry (BOA Editions, 2012)[1]
  • The Trembling Answers (BOA Editions, 2017)[2]
  • Ambivalence and Other Conundrums, (Omnidawn, 2014), chapbook

Prose

Awards
  • Colorado Poetry Prize, 2007[6]
  • The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, 2018[2]

References
  1. "Craig Morgan Teicher". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. "Craig Morgan Teicher". Poets.org. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  3. Toll, Martha Anne. "'We Begin In Gladness' Brings A Message Of Poetry's Importance In Today's World". NPR. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  4. "Welcoming our New Digital Director, Craig Morgan Teicher". Paris Review. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  5. Lehman, David; and Hirsch, Edward. Best American Poetry 2016, p. 190. Simon and Schuster, 2016. ISBN 9781501127557. 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. "Craig Morgan Teicher". BOA Editions. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
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