Kay Ryan
American poet · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1945 · age 81
Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize.
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2021Truman Capote Award for Literary CriticismAward2012National Humanities MedalAward2011Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAward2004Guggenheim FellowshipAwardRuth Lilly Poetry PrizeAward1945Born21 September 1945
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Born 1945 · age 81
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