Lia Purpura [SEP] educated at
Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching/Writing Fellow in Poetry, Lia Purpura is currently Writer-in-Residence at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore, Maryland. She is also on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA Program in Tacoma, Washington. Recent visiting appointments include visiting faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Bedell Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa's MFA Program in Nonfiction; Coal Royalty Visiting Professor at the University of Alabama's
links.
- NEA Writer's Corner: Lia Purpura
- Audio: Wired for Books > Lia Purpura
- "Interview with Lia Purpura" by Margaret MacInnis
- Interviews > Smartish Pace > "An Interview with Lia Purpura" > by Laura Klebanow
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Bookslut: Interview by Noah Charney
- When Beauty Stretches: Apercu Quarterly
- The Journal: Ohio State University Interview
- WYPR Maryland Morning. Interview with Tom Hall
- WYPR Maryland Morning : Rough Likeness
- Sarabande