Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura’s collection of essays, On Looking (Sarabande Books), was finalist for the National Book Critic’s 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 7/2008)

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	AGNI 64
•Glaciology	AGNI 60
•The Lustres	AGNI 65