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Fanny Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1940. She is an American poet, novelist and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection, and is the mother of novelist Danzy Senna. Her father was a lawyer and her mother played in Abbey Theatre for some time. She is sister to Susan Howe, also a poet.

Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe is one of the most widely read of American experimental poets. She has also published several volumes of prose, including Lives of the Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005) and The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003), a collection of essays. Several awards have been awarded to her, namely the 2001 Lenore Marshall and Poetry Prize, and the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. She is currently a professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Acclaim
Poet Michael Palmer commented: "Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit. Her work displays as well a political urgency, that is to say, a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis, the "city on a hill".  Writes Emerson, The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. Here's the luminous and incontrovertible proof."

Bewildered in Boston by Joshua Glenn states that "Fanny Howe isn't part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and `70s."

Books

 * Selected Poems (2000) (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize)
 * Forged (1999)
 * Q (1998)
 * One Crossed Out (1997)
 * O'Clock (1995)
 * The End (1992)
 * On the Ground (2004) (also shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize)
 * The Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2007)