Erica Funkhouser
She graduated from Vassar College with an AB and from Stanford University with a MA. She used to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts.
Erica Funkhouser
- Name
- Erica Funkhouser
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- * Stanford University
- Born
- 1949
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- American literature · American poetry · American drama
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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She graduated from Vassar College with an AB and from Stanford University with a MA. She used to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts.
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Erica Funkhouser (born 1949) is an American playwright, poet and writer.
The playwright studied at Stanford University and Vassar College. Erica Funkhouser worked for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The playwright is active in American drama, American literature and American poetry.
Languages used include English. Erica Funkhouser received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Erica Funkhouser studied at Stanford University and Vassar College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is American literature, American poetry and American drama. Employment is recorded with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
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• Name — Erica Funkhouser • Occupation — Poet • Education — * Stanford University • Vassar College • Employer — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Erica Funkhouser is an American poet.
Works
Works
• Post & Rail, University of Washington Press, 2018 • "Imaginary Friends", AGNI 66, 2006 • "Day Work", Beatrice, 15 March 2008 • "Love Poem with Harbor View", Poetry Foundation • Earthly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, • Pursuit, Houghton Mifflin, 2002, • The actual world, Houghton Mifflin, 1997, • Sure Shot and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1992 • Natural Affinities, A. James Books, 1983,
Anthologies
Anthologies
• "My Father's Lunch", Good Poems for Hard Times, Editor Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group, 2006, • "The Women Who Clean Fish", Working classics: poems on industrial life, Editors Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, University of Illinois Press, 1990, • "Lilies", Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology, Editors Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher University of Illinois Press, 2004,
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Non-fiction
• Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery, an illustrated history, Authors Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, William Least Heat Moon, Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, Knopf, 1997,
Awards
• 2007 Guggenheim fellowship
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