Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.

Early life and education

Spires was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.^[1] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.^{[citation needed]}

Selected works

Poetry

• Globe. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan. March 1, 1981. ISBN 978-0-8195-1101-0.
• Annonciade. New York: Puffin. July 1, 1989. ISBN 978-0-14-058638-1.
• Worldlings. W. W. Norton & Company. May 1, 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-31628-5.
• Swan's Island. New York: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. February 1997. ISBN 978-0-88748-249-6.
• Now the Green Blade Rises. W. W. Norton. 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-32485-3.
• The Wave-Maker. W. W. Norton. 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-06659-3.
• "Riddle". The Atlantic. June 2009.
• A Memory of the Future. W. W. Norton. 2018. ISBN 978-0-393-65105-8.

Children's books

• The Mouse of Amherst. Illustrator Claire A. Nivola. Scholastic. 2001. ISBN 978-0-439-20088-2.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
• I heard God talking to me: William Edmonton and his Stone Carvings. Frances Foster Books. 2009. ISBN 978-0-374-33528-1.
• With one white wing: puzzles in poems and pictures. Illustrator Erik Blegvad. M.K. McElderry Books. 1995. ISBN 978-0-689-50622-2.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)

Edited

• The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.

Anthologies

• A. R. Ammons; David Lehman, eds. (1994). The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-89948-6.