Mary Jo Bang | |
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 Bang at the 2015 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | October 22, 1946 Waynesville, Missouri, USA |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University Polytechnic of Central London Columbia University |
Mary Jo Bang (born October 22, 1946, in Waynesville, Missouri) is an American poet.[1]
Bang grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's and Master's in sociology, from the Polytechnic of Central London with a Bachelor's in Photography, and from Columbia University, with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry). Previously, she has taught at Columbia College, Yale University, The New School for Social Research, University of Montana, Columbia University and at Iowa's Writing Workshop. Bang is currently a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.[2]
Her work has appeared in New American Writing, Paris Review, The New Yorker,[3] A Public Space, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Harvard Review.
Bang was the poetry co-editor of the Boston Review from 1995 to 2005. She was a judge for the 2004 James Laughlin Award.
She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
