Miriam Levine

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|name=Miriam Levine

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1939}}

|occupation=Memoirist, poet, novelist

|education=Boston University (BA, MA)
Tufts University (PhD)

|website={{URL|https://www.miriamlevine.com/}}

}}

Miriam Levine (born 1939) is an American memoirist, poet and novelist.{{cite news |last=Holder |first=Doug |date=2020-01-20 |title="Miriam Levine on her new collection 'Saving Daylight'" |url=http://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/96980 |work=The Somerville Times |access-date=2021-02-04}} Levine was the first Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.{{cite web |url=https://www.arlingtonma.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=28293 |title=Minutes of Arlington Poet Laureate Committee Meeting |author= |date=2015-07-02 |website=Town Of Arlington, MA Website |access-date=2021-04-02 |quote=We chose Miriam Levine to be the first Poet Laureate of Arlington.}}

Biography

Levine was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of Gertrude and Joseph Levine.{{cite news |date=2004-06-07 |title=Obituary: Gertrude (Jacobs) Levine |url=https://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=gertrude-levine-jacobs&pid=2304085 |work=The Star-Ledger |access-date=2021-04-02}} She spent her early years in Passaic, New Jersey and earned a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University and a PhD in British Literature from Tufts University.{{cite news |last=Sanna |first=James |date=2015-08-01 |title=Arlington's poet laureate brings passion for life, heart |url=https://arlington.wickedlocal.com/article/20150801/NEWS/150809900 |work=Arlington Journal |access-date=2021-02-04}}

Levine was a professor at Framingham State University; and, before that, taught at Emerson College, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Northeastern University.{{cite web |url=https://www.miriamlevine.com/bio |title=Bio of Miriam Levine |author= |website=Miriam Levine Website |access-date=2021-04-02}}

Awards

Levine, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize,{{cite web |url=https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/poetry/ |title=Autumn House Poetry Prize |author= |website=Autumn House Poetry Prize |access-date=2021-04-02}} is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation.{{cite web |url=https://www.yaddo.org/artists/artist-guests/writers/ |title=Writers at Yaddo |author= |website=Corporation of Yaddo |access-date=2021-04-02 |archive-date=2019-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402180806/https://www.yaddo.org/artists/artist-guests/writers/ |url-status=dead }} Awarded a Pushcart Prize,{{cite web |url=https://www.autumnhouse.org/our-authors/levinemiriam/ |title=Miriam Levine Bio |author= |website=Autumn House |access-date=2021-04-02}} she was a resident fellow at Yaddo; Le Chateau de Lavigny International Writers' Colony, Switzerland;{{cite web |url=http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/in-residence |title=Writers in Residence at The Château de Lavigny |author= |website=The Château de Lavigny |access-date=2021-04-02}} and Millay Colony for the Arts.{{cite web |url=https://www.millaycolony.org/our-residents/ |title=Writers in Residence at Millay Colony for the Arts |author= |website=Millay Colony for the Arts |access-date=2021-04-02}}

Works

Saving Daylight (2019){{cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ALevine%2C+Miriam%2C&qt=hot_author |title=WorldCat: List of Miriam Levine Works |author= |website=WorldCat |access-date=2021-04-02}}
The Dark Opens (2008)
In Paterson: a Novel (2002)
Devotion (1993)
A Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (1984)
The Graves of Delawanna (1981)
To Know We Are Living (1976)
Friends Dreaming (1974)