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Patricia Fargnoli is an American poet and retired psychotherapist. She was the New Hampshire Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009.[1]

Biography

Fargnoli is an alumna of Trinity College, Hartford College for Women, and the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.

Fargnoli's books of poetry include Necessary Light (Utah State University Press, 1999), winner of the May Swenson Book Award; Lives of Others (Oyster River Press, 2001); Small Songs of Pain (Pecan Grove Press, 2003); Duties of the Spirit (Tupelo Press, 2005) which won the Jane Kenyon Literary Award for Outstanding Poetry by a New Hampshire poet; and, most recently, Then, Something (also from Tupelo Press, 2009), which won the 2009 Foreword Review Best of the Year Silver Award in Poetry.[citation needed]

She is the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.[2] Her poems have appeared in magazines and literary journals including Poetry, Ploughshares,[3] Prairie Schooner, The Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, and Nimrod.

She has served as an Associate Editor of The Worcester Review, and taught at The Frost Place, the NH Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning Program at Keene State College.

A resident of Walpole, New Hampshire, she is a member of the New Hampshire Arts Council Touring Roster and of the New Hampshire Writers' Project at Southern New Hampshire University.

She has three children: Kenneth, Michael, and Diana; and four grandchildren: Alycia, Joseph Fargnoli, Joshua, and Jessica.

References

  1. ^ New Hampshire State Council on the Arts > Arts & Artists
  2. ^ "The MacDowell Colony > Index of MacDowell Fellows". Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  3. ^ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Patricia Fargnoli

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