Sophie Cabot Black

Sophie Cabot Black

Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958) is a prize-winning American poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University and elsewhere.

Her poetry has appeared in publications including "The Atlantic Monthly", "Boston Review", "The Paris Review", "Poetry", "Fence", "APR", "Bomb", and "The New Republic". Various anthologies have also included her work, such as "More Light: Father & Daughter Poems", "The Best American Poetry 1993" (edited by Louise Glück), and "Looking for Home: Women in Exile". [http://artemisproject.com/sophie/main.html] Graywolf Press Web site, Sophie Cabot Black biography Web page, accessed October 26, 2006]

Black has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (1988), the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (1988), and, most recently, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.

Life

She was born in New York City and raised on a small farm in Wilton, Connecticut [http://www.marlboro.edu/about/publications/potash_hill/potash_hill_2004_winter] "Potash Hill" magazine of Marlboro College, Winter-Spring 2004 issue, Alumni news", Class of '80, page 34] , by her parents, Linda Cabot and David Black (born 1931), who has been a Broadway producer, actor, teacher, writer and artistic director. Her younger brother, actor Jeremy Black, appeared as the boy Hitler clones in Boys from Brazil. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085333/bio] Internet Movie Data Base Web site, Web page titled "Jeremy Black (I)", accessed October 28, 2006]

Black received her bachelor's degree from Marlboro College in 1980 and master of fine arts degree from Columbia University in 1984. As of late 2003, she was teaching at Columbia.

Black is the mother of two girls and lives in New York City and Wilton, Connecticut.

Awards

Her awards include:
*Grolier Poetry Prize (1988)
*John Masefield Award from the Poetry Society of America
*Emerging Poets Award from Judith's Room (1990).
*Connecticut Book Award for Poetry (2005)

Works

Poetry collections

*"The Misunderstanding of Nature" (1994), her first collection of poems; Graywolf Press; received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award; 90 pages; ISBN 1-55597-190-3 (hardcover); ISBN 1-55597-201-2 (paperback)
*"The Descent: poetry" (2004), Graywolf Press; 73 pages, ISBN 1-55597-406-6 (paperback)

Other

Black's translations of Latin American poets have been included in the anthologies "You Can't Drown the Fire" and "Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology".

Her essays appear in "Wanting a Child" and "First Loves". One of her poems was used in a song on an album by Akiko Yano.

Notes

External links

* [http://artemisproject.com/sophie/main.html] Black's biography Web page at Graywolf Press
* [http://artemisproject.com/sophie/poems.html] Some of her poems online
* [http://artemisproject.com/sophie/newwork.html] Some poems from "The Descent" online


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