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Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura
Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, including All the Fierce Tethers. (essays, Sarabande Books) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her awards include Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as four Pushcart Prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, and others. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Agni, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore, MD.


The Bald Eagle: National Symbol, Rockstar… Dubious Moral Character?

Lia Purpura on Four Eagles in Her Life
April 5, 2019  By Lia Purpura
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