Colorado Poets Center
Marilyn Krysl
Biography
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Krysl has published seven books of poetry
and three of stories, as well as poems in The Atlantic, The
Nation, The New Republic and many other magazines. Her
stories appear in Best American Short Stories 2000, O. Henry
Prize Stories, Sudden Fiction, Sudden Stories and
the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has received two NEA
fellowships and the Lawrence Foundation Prize for fiction, is former Director
of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder
and a founding editor of Many Mountains Moving. She has
taught ESL in the People’s Republic of China, served as Artist in
Residence at the Center for Human Caring, worked as a volunteer for Peace
Brigade International in Sri Lanka, and volunteered at the Kalighat Home
for the Destitute and Dying administered by Mother Teresa’s Sisters
of Charity in Calcutta. She currently volunteers with the Lost Boys
of Sudan. Please visit her personal website at http://spot.colorado.edu/~krysl. |
Bibliography
Selected
Book-Length Poetry Collections
Book-Length Fiction Collections
“Krysl is funny, fierce, and feminist in the best possible way, and a technician of variety and resourcefulness.” —John Updike
“Krysl’s poetry is funny, funky, tragic, brave, lyrical, humane, political and full of surprises....She is still writing the liveliest sestinas in America.” —Alicia Ostriker
“She has a poet’s compression, a novelist’s feel for the whole, and she is bitterly funny.” —Rosellen Brown
“Confidently shifting between satire and lyricism, Krysl’s potent, unflinching stories chart how conflict can become catharsis....” —New York Times Book Review
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