Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks.
McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended Sidwell Friends School. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his MFA from Columbia University's creative writing program in 1988, where he was classmates with Rick Mo...
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Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks.
McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended Sidwell Friends School. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1984 and his MFA from Columbia University's creative writing program in 1988, where he was classmates with Rick Moody. He currently lives in Miami, Florida, and teaches creative writing at Florida International University, where his students have included Richard Blanco. He is married to Elizabeth Lichtenstein, whom he met while he was an undergraduate; they have two sons.
In the early 1980s, while a student at the University of Chicago, he was a member of the punk band Men From The Manly Planet.
McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for The Bob Hope Poem in Spring...
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