Divinity School

C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas on January 6, 1949. She attended Memphis State University and the University of Arkansas. Her collections of poetry include Cooling Time and One with Others, which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her works also won the Whiting Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She won a MacArthur genius award and a Guggenheim fellowship. She was a writing professor at Brown University. She died suddenly on January 12, 2016 at the age of 67.

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