Education
McCarriston had completed her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emmanuel College in Boston.
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Linda McCarriston
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Career
She has taught at Vermont College, Goddard College and George Washington University and has been a Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. 1984, AWP Award Series Selection.
Achievements
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1984, AWP Award Series Selection. 1991, Eva-Mary, book of 35 poems, won the Terrence Des President Prize 1991, National Book Award for finalist, Eva-Mary 1996, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Creative Activity, UAA 2004, Alaska Press Women"s Communicator of Achievement award, as APW Treasurer, for her "career accomplishments, as well as her participation in APW." January Ingram, from the award committee stated, “Linda is a nationally acclaimed poet who fought her way through difficult personal issues and the social pressures of her generation to find her voice. Foreign her students and for the rest of us, she models courage and honesty.".
