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C. D. Wright


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C. D. Wright published more than a dozen collections of poetry and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. She was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Whiting Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the international prize for poetry given by the Griffin Trust. Born in the Ozark Mountain region of Arkansas, Wright passed away on January 12, 2016.

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