Claudia Emerson
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About
American poet who received the Pulitzer Prize for Late Wife, a 2005 collection of poems. Her other poetry collections include Pinion, An Elegy; Figure Studies; and Secure the Shadow.
Before Fame
She received an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Virginia and an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Trivia
She was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2008-2010.
Family Life
She grew up in Chatham, Virginia. She married musician Kent Ippolito in 2000.
Associated With
She and Nikki Giovanni can both be classified as late twentieth century/early twenty-first century Virginian poets.
