Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author of The Hurting Kind and five other collections of poems. These include, most recently, The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review, among others. She is the former host of American Public Media’s weekday poetry podcast The Slowdown. Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Awards
U.S. Poet Laureate
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
National Book Award Finalist
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist
Kingsley Tufts Award, Finalist
Autumn House Poetry Prize
Pearl Poetry Prize
Pushcart Prize
Chicago Literary Award for Poetry
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