Timothy Donnelly
American writer

Timothy Donnelly

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American writer
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3 June 1969(Providence, USA)
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Columbia University
Johns Hopkins University
Columbia University School of the Arts
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Timothy Donnelly (born June 3, 1969 Providence, Rhode Island) is an American poet.

Life

He earned his BA from The Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing program.He is an associate professor at Columbia University. He became a poetry editor for the Boston Review in 1996. He later resigned from the Boston Review in protest over their handling of #metoo allegations against Junot Díaz, the fiction editor at the journal.

Donnelly is the author of Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003), and The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010).

Awards and honors

  • 2012: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, The Cloud Corporation
  • 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 2014: Alice Fay di Castagnola Award