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Lia Purpura
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Lia Purpura is the author of nine collections of essays, poems, and translations. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Looking (essays, Sarabande Books), she has also received Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as five Pushcart Prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and other honors. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, AGNI, Emergence, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore, where she is writer in residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has taught in the Rainier Writing Workshop’s MFA program, at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, in The University of Iowa’s nonfiction MFA program, and at conferences, workshops, and graduate programs throughout the country. Her newest collection of poems is It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin), and her latest collection of essays is All the Fierce Tethers (Sarabande Books). She  is a contributing editor of AGNI. (updated 4/2017)

Purpura’s AGNI essay “Glaciology” won a Pushcart Prize and is reprinted in the 2006 anthology.

AGNI has published the following work:

Blog
The Ecology of Attention
Online 2022 Technology Writing Process Mysteries
Essays
The Lustres
AGNI 65 Print Only
Essays
Two Experiments and a Coda
AGNI 68 Print Only
Essays
Walk with Snowy Things
AGNI 85 Print Only
Essays
Glaciology
AGNI 60 Nature Home Relationships

AGNI has published the following translations:

Poetry
A Few Years After Nero
AGNI 34 Print Only
Poetry
On Manet’s “Olympia”
AGNI 34 Print Only
Poetry
Exorcist
AGNI 34 Print Only
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