Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951 Palo Alto, California) is an American poet.

Life

She is married to Michael Madonick, a poet and fiction writer.

She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College. She is a professor of English and Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Awards

• 2008: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
• 2006: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2005: Pulitzer Prize (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: National Book Critics' Circle (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: Los Angeles Times Book Award (poetry), Finalist
• 2005: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1999: American Academy of Arts and Letters Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
• 1996: Whiting Award
• 1995: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, Finalist
• 1994: Lamont Poetry Prize (for Song)
• 1986: Yale Younger Poets Award, selected by James Merrill
• 1986: Discovery/The Nation Poetry Prize

External links

• Academy of American Poets Biography
• Literary Agent site
• BOA Editions Biography
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• The Orchard reviewed in Double Room