Michael Avedon
Fanny Howe
Poetry
Fanny Howe is an award-winning poet. Her recent collections of poetry include Love and I (2019), The Needle’s Eye (2016), and Second Childhood (2014). She has also written novels, short stories, and collections of literary essays such as The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003) and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation (2009). Howe was the 2009 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living U. S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. She has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Poetry Foundation.
