Lia Purpura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lia Purpura

American poet, writer, educator

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1964

Place of Birth: Mineola, New York, United States

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator.
She is the author of four collections of poems (King Baby, Stone Sky Lifting, The Brighter the Veil, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful), four collections of essays (Increase, On Looking, Rough Likeness, and All the Fierce Tethers) and one collection of translations (Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash).
Her poems and essays appear in AGNI, The Antioch Review, DoubleTake, FIELD, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Orion Magazine, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares.
Southern Review, and many other magazines.