Marilyn Nelson

Marilyn Nelson was the Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut (2001-2006) and a three-time National Book Award Finalist. She has won the Annisfield-Wolf Award and the 1999 Poets’ Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Nelson is the author of The Freedom Business, Fortune, and Carver: A Life in Poems, among other titles. She is also a Newbery Honor Book winner, and a Boston Globe--Horn Book award winner. Dr. Nelson lives in Connecticut.

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