Background
She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her Bachelor of Arts and M.T.
She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her Bachelor of Arts and M.T.
Master of Teaching) from the University of Virginia, and attended the Iowa Writers" Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow.
In a feature on NBCCA poetry finalists, the Christian Science Monitor wrote:..with her intelligence and understated grace, Szybist may become one of the best-known writers of her generation. Szybist"s poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Tin House, and The Kenyon Review, and The Best American Poetry 2008. Szybist is an associate professor of English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and a faculty member at the Warren Wilson College Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers.
She also has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, the Tennessee Governor's School for Humanities, the University of Virginia’s Young Writers’ Workshop, and West High School in Iowa City.
2013 National Book Award for Poetry.