Lucy Ives
Born1980 (age 43–44)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • critic
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
New York University (PhD)
Website
www.lucy-ives.com

Lucy Ives (born 1980) is an American novelist, poet, and critic.

Born in New York City, Ives graduated from Harvard University with a BA and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA. Ives earned her PhD in comparative literature from New York University.[1]

Ives's long poem Anamnesis (2009) won the Slope Editions Book Prize.[1] In 2013 Ives published a novella, Nineties, her second novella, The Worldkillers, was published in 2014.[2] Orange Roses, a collection of essays and poetry, was published in 2013.[2] Ives's novel Impossible Views of the World (2017) was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Choice and published by Penguin.[1] Her second novel, Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2019. Her first story-collection, Cosmogony, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2021.

Ives has been the recipient of an Iowa Arts fellowship, a MacCracken fellowship, and a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.[2]

Bibliography

  • Anamnesis (2009)
  • Nineties (2013)
  • Orange Roses (2013)
  • The Worldkillers (2014)
  • The Hermit (2016)
  • Impossible Views of the World (2017)
  • Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World (2019)
  • Cosmogony (2021)
  • Life Is Everywhere (2022)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lucy Ives". New York University. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lucy Ives". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 27 February 2020.


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