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Sandra Lim, Ph.D.

Professor

College
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Department
English
Phone
978-934-4194
Office
O'Leary Library - 4th Floor
Links

Expertise

Poetry & Poetics; 20th-Century American Literature

Research Interests

Poetry & Poetics, 20th-Century & Contemporary Poetry, Asian American Studies, Creative Nonfiction, Essay.

Education

  • Ph.D.: English, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • MFA: Poetry, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Iowa City, IA
  • BA: English, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Biosketch

Sandra Lim, Ph.D., is the author of three books of poetry: "The Curious Thing" (W.W. Norton, 2021); "The Wilderness" (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Louise Glück; and "Loveliest Grotesque" (Kore Press, 2006). Her work has appeared in a range of magazines and literary journals, including "The New York Review of Books," "Poetry," "The New Republic," "The Baffler," "The Yale Review," and "The New York Times Magazine," among others. Her poems and essays are anthologized in "Counterclaims" (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020), "The Poem's Country" (Pleiades Press, 2018), "The Echoing Green" (The Modern Library, 2016), and "Among Margins" (Ricochet Editions, 2016). 

Sandra's honors include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness, a Pushcart Prize, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Getty Foundation.

Sandra is the 2023 Distinguished University Professor, UMass Lowell’s most prestigious academic honor for a faculty member.