Vermont College of Fine Arts

Cynthia Huntington

Cynthia Huntington’s latest poetry collection, The Radiant, winner of the Levis Prize, was published in 2003 by Four Way Books. Huntington is the author of two previous books of poetry: The Fish-Wife, and We Have Gone to the Beach, as well as a prose memoir, The Salt House. She has won numerous prizes and awards including two National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Former New Hampshire State Poet Laureate, she now lives in Vermont. She has taught in the MFA in Writing Programs at UC-Irvine and VCFA, and in the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. She is Professor of English at Dartmouth College where she serves as vice-chairman of the English department and as senior faculty in creative writing. She served as Chair of the Poetry Jury for the Pulitzer Prizes in Poetry for 2006.