Jorie Graham

Antonella Francini (Syracuse University)

Ed. by Justin Parks, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 9 May 1950
Activity 1970-ongoing

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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One of the major contemporary poets in the English language, Jorie Graham is an internationally renowned figure on the American poetry scene. She is the author of a substantial body of work, comprising sixteen collections of poetry, speeches, essays, and interviews, and the editor of two anthologies, The Best American Poetry 1990 and Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996). In 2025, she was guest editor of You Must Live: New Poetry From Palestine and one of the executive producers of the film The Voice of Hind Rajab, winner of the Silver Lion at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

Translated into many languages, Graham’s work has received prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy and Institute of...

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Citation: Francini, Antonella. "Jorie Graham". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 March 2026 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5983, accessed 09 June 2026.]