María Negroni

María Negroni (b. 1951, Argentina) has published twelve books of poetry, five collections of essays, and two novels and her work has been awarded numerous prizes. She received a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry in 1994, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1998, the Fundación Octavio Paz fellowship for poetry in 2001, and The New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2005. She also received a National Book Award for her collection of poems El viaje de la noche, a PEN Award for ISLANDIA as best book of poetry in translation, New York 2001, and the Siglo XXI International Prize for Nonfiction for her book Galería Fantástica. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College since 1999.