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Heather McHugh Biography
Heather McHugh is one of the famous Poet, who was born on the memorable day of August 20 in the year 1948. Hailing from the vibrant city of California, Heather McHugh is a proud citizen of United States.
American poet whose poetry collections include Hinge & Sign, To the Quick, and Dangers. She was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, Heather McHugh continues to be an inspiration for many.
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Education
Harvard University; University of Denver; Yorktown High School
Family
She was born in California, and she grew up in Virginia. She married Nikolai Popov in 1987.
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She was influenced by the confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath.
Career
She graduated from Harvard University in 1970. Seven years later, she published Dangers, her debut poetry collection.
Trivia
She was the 2009 recipient of a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Net Worth & Salary
Heather McHugh net worth is $5 Million (2022).
Heather McHugh Timeline
1968
One notable work was Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968–1993, which won the Bingham Poetry Prize of the Boston Book Review and the Pollack-Harvard Review Prize, and was named by The New York Times Book Review a Notable Book of the Year.
1970
She was a Fellow at Cummington Community for the Arts in 1970, and entered graduate school at the University of Denver in 1971, having already published a poem in The New Yorker.
1972
She began teaching there, and received an Academy of American Poets prize in 1972.
1974
In 1974, she also received her first of three National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry.
1976
At 29, she completed a manuscript of poems titled Dangers (1976), that was a winner of Houghton Mifflin Co.'s New Poetry Series Competition, and was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977.
1980
After a Yaddo Colony fellowship in 1980, her second book, titled A World of Difference: Poems (1981), was published by Houghton Mifflin.
1981
Her poetry translation of Jean Follain's French work is titled D'après tout: Poems by Jean Follain (1981) and was published by Princeton University Press in the Lockhart Poetry in Translation series.
1983
She served on the Literature Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts during 1983 and 1986.
1984
In 1984, she became the Milliman Writer-In-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.
1986
In 1986, McHugh received a Bellagio grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
1987
During 1987, she was the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley.
1989
Her skill in translating literature by Slavic writers became even more evident with the publication of Because the Sea Is Black: Poems of Blaga Dimitrova (1989) featuring the work of a Bulgarian poet and novelist.
1990
In the late '80s, she also participated in an art project with Tom Phillips, resulting in a collectible book WHERE ARE THEY NOW?: The Class of Forty-Seven (1990).
1991
In 1991, she was the Coal-Royalty Chair at the University of Alabama.
1992
In 1992, McHugh was the Elliston Poet at the University of Cincinnati.
1993
One of Phillips's images, "A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel," from the collaboration is appropriately used on the cover of McHugh's essay collection Broken English: Poetry and Partiality (1993).
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1994
In 1994, Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968–1993, a collection of 24 new poems and selected poems from her five earlier books, was published by the Wesleyan University Press.
1995
The book won both the Harvard Review/Daniel Pollock Prize in 1995 and Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
1996
The New York Times Book Review chose this poetry collection as a "Notable Book of the Year." In 1996, after the book's publication, she received a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writing Award.
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1998
In 1998 McHugh received the Folger Library's O.
1999
McHugh was elected as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. She taught for some 40 years at American colleges and universities, including the University of Washington in Seattle; and she still takes some students through the low-residency Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
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2001
She takes editing collections of younger poets seriously, and helped to select poems for Hammer and Blaze: a Gathering of Contemporary American Poets (2001), published by the University of Georgia Press, which she co-edited with Ellen Bryant Voigt.
2003
Her next poetry collection, Eyeshot, was published in (2003) by Wesleyan University Press, and her latest collection, Upgraded to Serious, was released in 2009 both by Copper Canyon Press in the US and by Anansi in Canada.
2009
In 2009, she was awarded the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" for her work. and in 2011–2012, she started the non-profit CAREGIFTED ( http://caregifted.org ) to provide respite and tribute to long-term caregivers of the severely disabled and chronically ill. For her work there she received notice from Encore.org's Purpose Prizes.
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2011
The residency was initiated that same year, and McHugh filled the position until 2011 when she was appointed Pollock Professor of Creative Writing.
2012
McHugh was a judge for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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