{{short description|American poet and university professor (born 1952)}} {{distinguish|text = Elizabeth Spiers, an American editor and journalist}} {{Infobox writer | name = Elizabeth Spires | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Poet and university professor | language = English | nationality = America | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Vassar College, Johns Hopkins University | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Elizabeth Spires''' (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.
== Early life and education == Spires was raised in Circleville, Ohio.<ref name=Speaking_with>{{cite web|last=McCabe |first=Bret |date=September 4, 2018 |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/09/04/memory-of-the-future-elizabeth-spires/|title=Speaking with Elizabeth Spires about poetry, poets, and time travel|publisher=Johns Hopkins University|access-date=March 30, 2025}}</ref> She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.<ref name=Goucher_Bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.goucher.edu/faculty/elizabeth-spires|title=Elizabeth Spires |publisher=Goucher College|access-date=March 30, 2025}}</ref>
== Career == Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIhM0n05FJMC&pg=PA356|title=Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2002|isbn=978-0-313-31783-5|editor=Catherine Cucinella|chapter=Elizabeth Spires}}</ref> Her poems have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Poetry'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''The Paris Review'' and many other literary magazines and anthologies.<ref name=Goucher_Bio></ref>
== Awards and honors == She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.<ref name=Goucher_Bio></ref>
==Selected works==
===Poetry=== * {{Cite book| title=Globe| place=Middletown, Conn.| publisher=Wesleyan| date=March 1, 1981| isbn=978-0-8195-1101-0| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/globe0000spir}} * {{Cite book| title=Annonciade| place=New York| publisher=Puffin| date=July 1, 1989| isbn=978-0-14-058638-1| url=https://archive.org/details/annonciade00spir}} * {{Cite book| title=Worldlings| publisher= W. W. Norton & Company| date=May 1, 1992| isbn=978-0-393-31628-5 }} * {{Cite book| title=Swan's Island| place=New York| publisher= Carnegie-Mellon University Press | date=February 1997| isbn= 978-0-88748-249-6 }} * {{Cite book| title=Now the Green Blade Rises| publisher=W. W. Norton| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-393-32485-3 }} * {{Cite book| title=The Wave-Maker| publisher=W. W. Norton| year=2008| isbn=978-0-393-06659-3| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/wavemakerpoems0000spir}} * {{cite web|title=Riddle|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/riddle/307438/|publisher=The Atlantic|date=June 2009}} * {{Cite book| title=A Memory of the Future| publisher= W. W. Norton| year= 2018| isbn= 978-0-393-65105-8 }}
===Children's books=== * {{Cite book| title=The Mouse of Amherst| others=Illustrator Claire A. Nivola| publisher=Scholastic| year=2001| isbn=978-0-439-20088-2| url=https://archive.org/details/mouseofamherst00spir}} * {{Cite book| title=I heard God talking to me: William Edmonton and his Stone Carvings| publisher=Frances Foster Books| year=2009| isbn=978-0-374-33528-1| url=https://archive.org/details/iheardgodtalking00spir}} * {{Cite book| title=With one white wing: puzzles in poems and pictures| others=Illustrator Erik Blegvad| publisher=M.K. McElderry Books| year= 1995| isbn= 978-0-689-50622-2 }}
===Edited=== * ''The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen''.
===Anthologies=== *{{Cite book| title=The Best American Poetry 1994|editor1=A. R. Ammons |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Simon & Schuster| year= 1994| isbn= 978-0-671-89948-6 }}
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==External links== * Audio: [http://poemsoutloud.net/audio/archive/spires_reads_you_have_flown/ Elizabeth Spires reads ''You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country''] from ''The Wave-Maker'' (2008) * Audio: [http://poemsoutloud.net/audio/archive/spires_reads_snail/ Elizabeth Spires reads ''S n a i l''] from ''The Wave-Maker'' (2008) * Interview: [http://keepwriting.org/?p=51 Elizabeth Spires Interview (2010)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511161859/http://keepwriting.org/?p=51 |date=2017-05-11 }} from KeepWriting.org * Profile and Publication Info: [https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/elizabeth-spires#/ The Whiting Foundation]
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