Anne Boyer
American poet and essayist
Anne Boyer is an American poet and essayist who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Undying.
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American Born 1973 in Topeka, United States
About Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1973. Her books include The Romance of Happy Workers, Garments Against Women and The Handbook of Disappointed Fate. In 2016 she wrote a series of blog posts for the Poetry Foundation about her diagnosis and treatment for an aggressive form of breast cancer. The Undying, published in 2019, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. In 2018 she received the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a Whiting Award. She has also translated Venezuelan poets, including Miyo Vestrini, together with Guillermo Parra and Cassandra Gillig.