Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura
Born (1964-02-22) February 22, 1964 (age 60)
Mineola, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOberlin College;
Iowa Writers' Workshop
GenresPoetry; Essays

Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems (King Baby, Stone Sky Lifting, The Brighter the Veil, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful), four collections of essays (Increase, On Looking, Rough Likeness, and All the Fierce Tethers) and one collection of translations (Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash). Her poems and essays appear in AGNI,[1] The Antioch Review, DoubleTake, FIELD, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Orion Magazine, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares.[2] Southern Review, and many other magazines.