Priscilla Becker

Priscilla Becker
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Biography

Priscilla Becker’s book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review Prize and was published by Zoo Press in 2003. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, Small Spiral Notebook, Boston Review, Raritan, American Poetry Review, Verse, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets; her music reviews in The Nation and Filter magazine. her book reviews inThe New York Sun; and her essays in Cabinet Magazine and Open City. Her essays have also been anthologized by Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She teaches poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and in her apartment. Her second book, Stories That Listen, was published by Four Way Books.

First posted: April 13, 2007

Last modified: April 18, 2016