Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura’s collection of essays, On Looking (Sarabande Books), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007. Her new collection of poems, King Baby, won the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books and was published in April. She is writer-in-residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. (updated 10/2008)

Before its inclusion in On Looking, her AGNI essay “Glaciology” won a Pushcart Prize and was cited as “notable” in Best American Essays.

AGNI has published the following work by Lia Purpura:

•Being of Two Minds
•Glaciology
•The Lustres
•Two Experiments and a Coda

 

AGNI has published the following translations by Lia Purpura:

•Exorcist by Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska (translated with the author)
•On Manet's "Olympia" by Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska (translated with the author)