Awards & Winners

Jean Valentine

Date of Birth 27-April-1934
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Poet, Essayist
Jean Valentine is an American poet and was the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008–2010. Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. Her most recent book Break the Glass was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her first book, Dream Barker, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1965. She has published poems widely in literary journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, and Harper's Magazine, and The American Poetry Review. Valentine was one of five poets including Charles Wright, Russell Edson, James Tate and Louise Gluck, whose work Lee Upton considered critically in The Muse of Abandonment: Origin, Identity, Mastery in Five American Poets. She has held residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Ucross, and the Lannan foundation, among others. She was born in Chicago, USA, received bachelor of arts and a master of arts degrees at Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She has taught with the Graduate Writing Program at New York University, at Columbia University, at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, and at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was married to the late American historian James Chace from 1957–1968, and they have two daughters, Sarah and Rebecca.

Awards by Jean Valentine

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jean Valentine.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Break the Glass

2004


National Book Award for Poetry
Honored for : Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003