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David Wojahn is an American poet and professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has also published two books of criticism, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. Wojahn was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in the Midwest. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1975 and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1978. He has taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is currently a professor of English. Wojahn has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also served as a judge for the National Book Awards and the National Poetry Series.

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Occupation Poet and Professor of Creative Writing
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 22 August, 1953
Birthday 22 August
Birthplace Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Nationality United States

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2003

Wojahn taught for many years at Indiana University. He has also taught at University of Alabama, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Chicago, University of Houston, and University of New Orleans. In 2003, he joined Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He also teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

1995

Wojahn has gone on to publish seven more books of poetry, all with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Wojahn has also edited a volume of poetry by his late wife, Lynda Hull, entitled The Only World (HarperPerennial, 1995), as well as her more recent Collected Poems (Graywolf, 2006).

1953

David Wojahn (born 1953, St. Paul, Minnesota) is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has been the director of Virginia Commonwealth University's Creative Writing Program.