Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura (author page at Amazon) is the author of On Looking (Sarabande Books, 2006), a collection of essays, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent volume of poems, King Baby (Alice James Books, 2008), won the Beatrice Hawley Award. Recent poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, and elsewhere, and her third book of essays is due out next year from Sarabande. She is writer-in-residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. (updated 5/2010)

Before its inclusion in On Looking, her AGNI essay “Glaciology” won a Pushcart Prize and was cited as “notable” in Best American Essays.

AGNI has published the following work by Lia Purpura:

•Against “Gunmetal”
•Being of Two Minds
•Glaciology
•The Lustres
•Two Experiments and a Coda

 

AGNI has published the following translations by Lia Purpura:

•Exorcist by Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska (translated with the author)
•On Manet’s “Olympia” by Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska (translated with the author)