Fanny Howe Biography

Fanny Howe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Howe grew up in Cambridge Massachusetts and studied at Stanford University. Her work explores grammatical possibilities and its rhythms are generated from associative images and sounds.
Howe's collections of poetry include Second Childhood Come and See On the Ground Gone Selected Poems Forged Q One Crossed Out O’Clock and The End. Second Childhood is selected as a finalist for the National Book Award.
Howe is the author of many novels including Nod The Deep North Famous Questions Saving History and Indivisible. She has written short stories books for young adults and the collection of literary essays The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation.
She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts the National Poetry Foundation the California Council for the Arts and the Village Voice as well as fellowships from the Bunting Institute and the MacDowell Colony. Her Selected Poems won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. In 2001 and 2005 Howe was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2008 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2009.

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