About Miriam

Miriam Levine is a poet, memoirist, and fiction writer.  Her six books of poetry include Forget About Sleep, Saving Daylight, and The Dark Opens, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize.  She is the author of Devotion, a memoir; In Paterson, a novel; and A Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England.  Her poems have been widely published in such places as American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

She has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and was nourished by stays at various artist’s colonies, including Hawthornden Castle, Yaddo, and Ledig House, where her residency was funded by the Diane Cleaver Fellowship.

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Levine left her home state for New England, where she earned degrees in Comparative Literature from Boston University and a PhD in British Literature from Tufts University.

At Framingham State University in Massachusetts she was a professor and chair of the English Department and coordinator of the Arts and Humanities Program.

As Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts, among other activities, Levine offered free drop-in poetry workshops at Robbins Library, led in-class writing workshops at public and private schools, organized poetry readings, and administered poetry contests.

Levine divides her time between New Hampshire and Florida.