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Michael Collier was born on 25 May, 1953 in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., is an American writer and academic. Discover Michael Collier's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May, 1953
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1926

Founded in 1926, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is the longest-running writers' conference in the United States.

1953

Michael Robert Collier (born 1953) is an American poet, teacher, creative writing program administrator and editor.

He has published five books of original poetry, a translation of Euripides' Medea, a book of prose pieces about poetry, and has edited three anthologies of poetry.

1971

Collier was born in Phoenix, Arizona and graduated from Brophy College Preparatory in 1971.

1973

He attended the Santa Clara University for one year, then transferred to Connecticut College in 1973 to study with the Pulitzer prize-winning poet William Morris Meredith, Jr.

1976

After graduating cum laude from Connecticut College in 1976, and receiving his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1979, he was a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, from 1979 to 1980.

1977

In 1977, he moved to London on a Thomas Watson fellowship and worked with editor William Cookson on the British literary magazine Agenda.

1981

He moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1981, where he began teaching part-time at George Mason University, Trinity College and the University of Maryland, College Park.

In the summer of 1981, he attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for the first time as the Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Poetry, followed by stints as a fellow in 1986, and as associate faculty in 1992 and 1993.

1983

From 1983 to 1984, Collier was the coordinator of public relations and the poetry program at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

1984

In 1984, he was appointed full-time to the English faculty at the University of Maryland.

1994

In 1994, the trustees of Middlebury College appointed him Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

2001

From 2001 to 2004 he was the Poet Laureate of Maryland.

From 2001 to 2004, Collier served as the Maryland state poet laureate.

He is married and has two sons.

Collier's poems often reveal a fascination with objects and their significance.

2002

In 2002, Houghton-Mifflin Publishers appointed Collier as its editorial consultant for poetry.

2005

In a 2005 interview, Collier stated that he has "always been drawn to more formal poets like Robert Frost" and continued by saying that other "early influences included Anthony Hecht and early Robert Lowell…and W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin."

He added "I strongly identify with Philip Larkin, Thomas Hardy, Randall Jarrell, and George Herbert."

2007

He has edited books by the American poets Michael Ryan, Spencer Reece, and Alan Shapiro and the British poet Glyn Maxwell, as well as the books Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and Space Walk by Tom Sleigh, which won the 2008 $100,000 Kingsley Tufts award from Claremont Graduate University.

2011

As of 2011, he is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a professor of creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park and the poetry editorial consultant for Houghton Mifflin (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).