Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh (born Laramie, Wyoming) is an American poet and the current South Dakota poet laureate.^[1]

Life

Roripaugh was raised in Laramie, Wyoming, the daughter of poet Robert Roripaugh.^[2] She holds a B.M. in piano performance from Indiana University, as well as an M.M. in music history and an M.F.A. in creative writing.

Roripaugh is a Professor of English and the Director of Creative Writing at the University of South Dakota. She is also Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review.^[3] She was appointed to a four-year term as South Dakota's poet laureate in July 2015.^[4]

Awards

• Academy of American Poets Prize
• AWP Intro Award
• 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize
• 1998 National Poetry Series, for Beyond Heart Mountain selected by Ishmael Reed
• 2000 Asian American Literature Awards finalist
• 2003 Bush Artist Fellowship^[5]
• 2004 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose
• 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry 2nd Place

Selected publications

Books

• Beyond Heart Mountain. Penguin Books. 1999. ISBN 978-0-14-058920-7.
• Year of the Snake. Southern Illinois University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8093-2569-6.
• On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year. Southern Illinois University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8093-2929-8.
• Dandarians. Milkweed Editions. 2014. ISBN 978-1571314581.

Anthologies

• Robert Pack and Jay Parini, eds. (1994). American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-759-0.
• Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels, eds. (2000). American Poetry: The Next Generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
• Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, eds. (2002). "Pearls". Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-21920-9.
• Victoria M. Chang, ed. (2004). "Transplanting". Asian American poetry: the next generation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07174-4.
• Lorrie Goldensohn, ed. (2006). American war poetry: an anthology. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13310-4.
• William J. Walsh, ed. (2006). "Snow Country". Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6.

Ploughshares

• "Toothpick Warriors". Ploughshares. Fall 2001. Archived from the original on August 19, 2009.
• "Hope". Ploughshares. Fall 2001. Archived from the original on August 19, 2009.

References

1. "Gov. Appoints Vermillion Woman As South Dakota Poet Laureate". www.keloland.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
2. Newby, R. (2004). The Rocky Mountain Region. Greenwood Press. p. 317. ISBN 9780313328176. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
3. "Lee Ann Roripaugh: Poetry, Events, Books, and News". Lee Ann Roripaugh: Poetry, Events, Books, and News. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
4. "Poet Laureate Finds Inspiration In Ancestry". Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
5. http://www.bushfellows.org/fellows/show/3716

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