Simone White (writer)
Simone White | |
|---|---|
.jpg) White in 2023 | |
| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Middletown, Connecticut |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University (BA) Harvard University (JD) The New School (MFA) CUNY Graduate Center (PhD) |
| Genre | Poetry, criticism |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (2017) |
Simone White (born 1972) is an American poet, literary critic, and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, she won a Whiting Award for poetry.[1] Much of her writing style is a hybrid between poetry and prose.
Biography
[edit]White was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and grew up in Philadelphia.[2] She has a BA from Wesleyan University and earned a JD from Harvard Law School in 1997. She practiced law for seven years after graduation.[3] Since then, she has also earned an MFA from The New School and a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[4]
She was a visiting associate professor at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in Spring 2018.[5]
As of 2020, she is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania.[6]
Honors and awards
[edit]White was award a Whiting Award for Poetry in 2017.
She was selected as a "New American Poet" by the Poetry Society of America in 2013.[7]
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Dear Angel of Death, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018
- Of Being Dispersed, Futurepoem Books, 2016
- House of Envy of All the World, 2010
- Unrest, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013 (chapbook)
- Dolly (with illustrations by Kim Thomas), Q Ave Press, 2008
Articles
[edit]- Vince Staples by Simone White, Bomb Magazine
References
[edit]- ^ Piepenbring, Dan (22 March 2017). "Say Hello to the 2017 Whiting Honorees". The Paris Review. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (23 July 2020). "Simone White". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ Mannino, Carrie. "Simone White: Poet, Scholar, Philosopher". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "Simone White". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "Simone White - Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". writersworkshop.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "Simone White - Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "Simone White". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
External links
[edit]| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
 | This biographical article about an American poet born in the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1972 births
- Living people
- 20th-century African-American writers
- 21st-century African-American writers
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Harvard Law School alumni
- The New School alumni
- CUNY Graduate Center alumni
- African-American poets
- People from Middletown, Connecticut
- Wesleyan University alumni
- American poet, 20th-century birth stubs