Lynn Emanuel

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Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook (University of Pittsburgh Press).

She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets.[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2031 Poetry Foundation > Lynn Emanuel Biography]

She also won the 1992 National Poetry Series Open Competition for The Dig,[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/81 Academy of American Poets > Lynn Emanuel Biography][http://www.english.pitt.edu/people/faculty/emanuel/lynnbio.html University of Pittsburgh > English Department Faculty] and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including Parnassus,[http://www.parnassuspoetry.com/back-issue-index.htm Parnassus Back Issues, Index to Volumes 1 - 29.2] The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Slate[http://www.slate.com/id/2120095/ Night Run By Lynn Emanuel > Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006] and Ploughshares,[http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=444 Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Lynn Emanuel] and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry anthologies in 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2000,[http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n2/poetry/emanuel_l/index.htm Blackbird Archive: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts > Lyn Emanuel > Poems and Biography] and the Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Emanuel is Director of the Writing Program, and Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, and a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2031 Poetry Foundation > Lynn Emanuel Biography] She is married to the anthropologist, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, and they reside in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The early primate Microadapis lynnae is named after her.{{cite journal | last1 = Schwartz | first1 = Jeffrey Hugh | last2 = Tattersall | first2 = Ian | year = 1982 | doi = 10.1159/000156076 | pages = 178–186 | title = Relationships of Microadapis sciureus (Stehlin, 1916), and two new primate genera from the Eocene of Switzerland | journal = Folia Primatologica | volume = 39 | issue = 3–4| pmid = 7166284 }}