Miriam Levine

Miriam Levine (born 1939) is an American memoirist, poet and novelist.^[1] Levine was the first Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.^[2]

Levine was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of Gertrude and Joseph Levine.^[3] She spent her early years in Passaic, New Jersey and earned a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University and a PhD in British Literature from Tufts University.^[4]

Levine was a professor at Framingham State University; and, before that, taught at Emerson College, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Northeastern University.^[5][4]

Levine, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize,^[6] is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation.^[7] Awarded a Pushcart Prize,^[8] she was a resident fellow at Yaddo;^[8] Le Chateau de Lavigny International Writers' Colony, Switzerland;^[9] and Millay Colony for the Arts.^[10]

• Saving Daylight (2019)^[11]
• The Dark Opens (2008)^[11]
• In Paterson: a Novel (2002)^[11]
• Devotion (1993)^[11]
• A Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (1984)^[11]
• The Graves of Delawanna (1981)^[11]
• To Know We Are Living (1976)^[11]
• Friends Dreaming (1974)^[11]

• Miriam Levine’s website