Poet Laureate/Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress, 1993–95. National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowship, 1989 Ohioana award for Grace Notes, 1990, for Selected Poems, 1994 "Literary Lion," New York Public Library, 1991, Phi Beta Kappa poet, Harvard University, 1993 Virginia College Stores Association Book award for Through the Ivory Gate, 1993 Women of the Year award, Glamour magazine, 1993 NAACP Great American Artist award, 1993 Renaissance Forum award for leadership in the literary arts, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1994 Golden Plate award, American Academy of Achievement, 1994 Carl Sandburg award, International Platform Association, 1994 Fund for New American Plays grant, Kennedy Center, 1995 Charles Frankel prize, 1996 National Medal in the Humanities, 1996 Heinz award in the arts and humanities, 1996 Levinson prize, Poetry, 1998. Awards: Fulbright fellowship, 1974–75 National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1978, fellowship, 1982 Ohio Arts Council grant, 1979 Guggenheim fellowship, 1983 Lavan Younger Poets award, 1986 Pulitzer prize for Thomas and Beulah, 1987 Mellon fellowship, 1988–89.
Final judge, Walt Whitman award, 1990 juror, Ruth Lilly prize, National Book award (poetry), and Pulitzer prize in poetry, 1991, Newman's Own/ First Amendment award, PEN American Center, 1994, and since 1992 Anisfield-Wolf Book awards. Member of the Board of Directors, Associated Writing Programs, 1985–88 (president 1986–87) member of the advisory board, North Carolina Writers' Network, 1991–99 since 1994 member, Council of Scholars, Library of Congress. Since 1987 commissioner, Schomburg Center for the Preservation of Black Culture, New York Public Library. Member of the editorial board, National Forum, 1984–89 advisory editor, 1987–92, and associate editor, 1989–98, Callaloo advisory editor, Gettysburg Review, 1987–92 editor since 1988, Tri-Quarterly, since 1990 Ploughshares, and since 1994 The Georgia Review. Writer-in-residence, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1982 Rockefeller Foundation residency, Bellagio, Italy, 1988. Since 1989 professor of English, and since 1993 Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Career: Research assistant, 1975, and teaching assistant, 1976-77, University of Iowa assistant professor of creative writing, 1981–84, associate professor, 1984–87, professor of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1987–89. Family: Married Fred Viebahn in 1979 one daughter. (summa cum laude) 1973 ( Phi Beta Kappa) University of Tübingen, West Germany (Fulbright/Hays fellow), 1974–75 University of Iowa, Iowa City, M.F.A. Education: Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, B.A.
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