Deborah Warren (born 1946, in Boston) is an American writer.
She graduated from Harvard University, with an A.B. in English. She was a Latin and English teacher before becoming a software engineering manager.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Yale Review.
She lives in Massachusetts with her husband.
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Awards
2000 Robert Penn Warren Prize
2000 T. S. Eliot Prize of Truman State University (finalist)
2001 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
2002 Robert Frost Award
2003 New Criterion Poetry Prize
2008 Richard Wilbur Award for publication of Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit
2018 Meringoff Award
Books
Her books include:
The Size of Happiness. Waywiser Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-904130-04-8.
Zero Meridian: Poems. Ivan R. Dee. 2004. ISBN 978-1-56663-596-7.
Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit. University of Evansville Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-930982-66-9.
Ausonius: Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems. Routledge. 2016. ISBN 978-1138857780.
Connoisseurs of Worms. Paul Dry. 2021.
Strange to Say: Etymology for Serious Entertainment. Paul Dry. 2021.
Street Smarts: From Footpath to Freeway - A Miscellany. Paul Dry. 2026.
Weird and Shocking Facts About Famous Figures. Skyhorse. 2024.