Sophie Cabot Black was raised on a small farm in New England. She received her B.A. from Marlboro College and her M.F.A from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The Atlantic, Fence, The New Yorker, Bomb, The Paris Review, Poetry and The New Republic. Her work has also appeared in various anthologies, among them Best American Poetry, ed: Louise Gluck, Doggerel and Fatherhood, both poetry anthologies from the Everyman’s Library Series.
Her first poetry collection, The Misunderstanding of Nature, received the Norma Farber Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; her second, The Descent, received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award and was subsequently chosen as a hot pick on MSNBC’s program Topic A With Tina Brown. Her third book is The Exchange from Graywolf Pres. She has been awarded several fellowships, including at the Fine Arts Work Center, Macdowell Colony, and the Radcliffe Institute. She currently teaches at Columbia University.
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