Marianne Boruch, a creative writing teacher in Purdue University for 18 years, has won the 2013 $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection, '"The Book of Hours,' published by Copper Canyon Press.
"The award is presented for a work by a poet who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the pinnacle of his or her career," a university statement said.
This award is presented by Claremont Graduate University's School of Arts and Humanities, which is considered to be the most prestigious contemporary poetry award in the nation and the world's largest monetary prize for a single collection of poetry for its $100,000 prize.
Boruch also teaches at the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.
Heidy Steidlmayer from Vacaville, Calif., won the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book, 'Fowling Piece.' This award is given to a poet's first book of genuine promise.
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Kate Tufts Discovery Award will be presented, April 18, at Claremont Graduate University, which is in its 21st year.
Wendy Martin, director of the Tufts Poetry Awards program and vice provost at Claremont Graduate University, said that these awards help these poets to continue writing outstanding poetry.
Boruch's work features two collections of poetry: 'Grace, Fallen From' (Wesleyan, 2008) and 'Poems: New and Selected' (Oberlin, 2004).
She has also penned two books of essays about poetry, 'In the Blue Pharmacy' (Trinity, 2005) and 'Poetry's Old Air' (Michigan, 1993) and a journal, 'The Glimpse Traveler' (Indiana, 2011).
Boruch's work has already appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review and the London Review of Books among other publications.
Her other achievements feature the Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright/visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh, fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and Isle Royale National Park.
