Jorie Graham

In partnership with the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester, we are thrilled to host this rare UK appearance by one of America’s leading poets. Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Her most recent collection is Sea Change (Carcanet, 2008).

Born in New York in 1951, Graham grew up in France and Italy and was educated at the Sorbonne, New York University and the University of Iowa. She is a former director of the renowned Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and was Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003. She now divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University.

Read an interview with Jorie Graham on the CityLife website.