Marianne Boruch
Poet Marianne Boruch is a professor in the department of English at Purdue University and also teaches in the non-residential Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She has authored several books of poetry, including three from Wesleyan University Press: Grace, Fallen from, Descendant, and View from the Gazebo. Her poetry appears in a number of anthologies, including Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, and American Alphabets, edited by David Walker. Among her numerous honors and awards, Boruch counts a Pushcart Prize, two Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, and a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2005, she was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her poem "The Doctor," from Grace, Fallen from was included in The Best American Poetry, 2009.