Peter Campion

Who is Peter Campion?

Peter Campion is an American poet.

He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA, and from Boston University with an MA. He taught at Washington College, Ashland University, and Auburn University. He will teach at University of Minnesota beginning in the Fall of 2011.

His work has appeared in AGNI, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The New Republic, Poetry, Slate, and The Yale Review. He won a Levis Reading Prize, for The Lions.

He was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, a Theodore Morrison Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He won a Pushcart Prize, and Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,

He edits the journal Literary Imagination, published by Oxford University Press.