Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura (author page at Amazon) is the author of seven collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently Rough Likeness (essays). Her awards include a 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, NEA and Fulbright Fellowships, three
Pushcart Prizes, work in Best American Essays 2011, the AWP Award
in Nonfiction, and the Beatrice Hawley, and Ohio State University
Press awards in poetry. Recent work appears in Orion, The New
Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is
writer in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County, and teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop. (updated 4/2013)

AGNI has published the following work by Lia Purpura:

•Against “Gunmetal”
•Being of Two Minds
•Brief Treatise Against Irony
•Glaciology
•The Lustres
•Memo Re: Beach Glass
•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)