Cynthia Huntington - Bio

Cynthia Huntington’s latest poetry collection, The Radiant, winner of the Levis Prize, was published in 2003 by Four Way Books. Huntington is the author of two previous books of poetry: The Fish-Wife, and We Have Gone to the Beach, as well as a prose memoir, The Salt House. She has won numerous prizes and awards including two National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. She is Professor of English at Dartmouth College and currently serves as New Hampshire Poet Laureate.