Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae N.
Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae N.
PERSONAL:
Born in Daytona Beach, FL; daughter of William and Clementine Van Clief; married Justin Stefanon, June 8, 1996. Ethnicity: "Black." Education: Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1996; Pennsylvania State University, M.F.A., 1999.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Department of English, Cornell University, Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, member of English faculty.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Poetry Prize, Cave Canem, 2001, for Black Swan.
WRITINGS:
(Assistant editor, with Susan K. Harris) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2000.
Black Swan (poetry), University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 2001.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Black Issues Book Review, March-April, 2004, Duriel E. Harris, review of Black Swan, p. 27.
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