C.D. Wright
C.D. Wright has published twelve collections of poetry and prose. Reviewing her most recent book, Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon, 2008), The New York Times noted: “C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.” Her collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster, a journey into the prison-industrial complex entitled One Big Self, was honored with a Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies. Wright has also received the Griffin Trust Poetry Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lannan Foundation. In the 1990s she served five years as the State Poet of Rhode Island, and with a fellowship from the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Foundation, she curated “a walk-in book of Arkansas,” an exhibition which toured throughout her native state. Wright is currently the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University, and lives outside Providence, Rhode Island.
