Discipline: Literature – poetry

Debora Greger

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Gainesville, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976, 1977, 1978

Debora Greger has published ten books of poetry, most recently By Herself (2012) and In Darwin’s Room (2017). She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Among her awards are the Grolier Prize, the Discovery/The Nation Award, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. She taught for twenty-five years at the University of Florida, retiring in 2009. In 2012 she was appointed the first Poet-in-Residence at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida.