Leslie McGrath

In addition to the honors noted above, McGrath was awarded the University of Tulsa's 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, a 2010 grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook, and the 2017 Gretchen Warren Award from The New England Poetry Club. Her literary interviews have been published in Association of Writers & Writing Programs's official magazine, ''The Writer's Chronicle. Her poems have been published widely, including in Agni, Poetry magazine, The Academy of American Poets, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Yale Review. An interview with McGrath about her work appears in The Nervous Breakdown''. McGrath served on the advisory board for The Word Works, a literary press in Washington, D.C., which sponsors The Washington Prize. She was also the series editor for the Word Works' Tenth Gate Series, an imprint inspired by poet Jane Hirshfield, which recognizes the work of mid-career poets. McGrath served on the Poetry Advisory Committee of Sunken Garden Poetry Series at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut, and formerly served on the board of The James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. == References ==