Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon (born 1971) is an American poet. In 2009, she was a National Book Award finalist for her book, Open Interval.
Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon
- Name
- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
- Birthplace
- United States
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- Washington and Lee University Penn State University
- Born
- 1971 · United States.
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon • Birthplace — United States • Occupation — Poet • Education — Washington and Lee University Penn State University • Genre — Poetry
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Van Clief-Stefanon earned her BA in English from Washington and Lee University in 1996, and her MFA in Poetry from Penn State University in 1999. She published her first full-length collection, Black Swan (University of Pittsburgh Press), in 2001, for which she won the Cave Canem Prize and was a finalist for the 2003 Patterson Poetry Prize. In July 2004, she became an assistant professor at Cornell University in English Literature. In June 2008, Van Clief-Stefanon co-authored the chapbook Poems in Conversation and a Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander. In April 2009, Van Clief-Stefanon published her second poetry collection,]Open Interval[, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Van Clief-Stefanon's work has appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and Shenandoah, among other places. She is currently working on a third book, The Coal Tar Colors.
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