Marilyn Nelson is an accomplished poet, translator, and author from Cleveland, Ohio. She attended the University of California at Davis for her BA, the University of Pennsylvania for her MA, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Nelson has published many collections of poetry, including The Fields of Praise (1997), The Cachoeira Tales (2005), Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems 1996-2011 (2012), How I Discovered Poetry (2014), and My Seneca Village (2015). In 2019, Nelson was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation. She has also won the Robert Frost medal and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She served as Connecticut’s poet laureate from 2001 to 2006.
Currently, Nelson is a professor at the university of Connecticut at Storrs.
Information from the Poetry Foundation.
