Kara Candito is an American poet and educator. She is a Creative Writing Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and co-curator of the Monsters of Poetry reading series in Madison, Wisconsin.

Education

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Candito earned a PhD at Florida State University.[1]

Works and publications

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Her work has been published in literary journals including AGNI, The Kenyon Review, and Drunken Boat. She has also been anthologized in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (2012) and Best New Poets 2007.

Candito has served as editor in chief of the Driftless Review and has been a co-curator of the Monsters of Poetry reading series.[2]

Awards

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Her book Taste of Cherry won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry,[3] and Spectator received the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize.[3] She has received awards for her poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.[4]

Personal life

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Candito was born in Boston, United States. Candito resides in Madison, Wisconsin.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Kara Candito". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  2. ^ Candito, Kara (2014). Spectator. University of Utah Press. ISBN 9781607813514.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Kara Candito". University of Wisconsin Platteville. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  4. ^ "Kara Candito". ConnotationPress.com. Retrieved 2024-08-10.