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Birth Name:

Lia Purpura

Female

Birth Date:

Sat, Feb 22, 1964

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Mineola, New York, United States

Age:

60

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

3°

Pis

7'

About Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems (King Baby, Stone Sky Lifting, The Brighter the Veil, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful), four collections of essays (Increase, On Looking, Rough Likeness, and All the Fierce Tethers) and one collection of translations (Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash). Her poems and essays appear in AGNI, The Antioch Review, DoubleTake, FIELD, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Orion Magazine, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares. Southern Review, and many other magazines.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• NEA Writer's Corner: Lia Purpura

• Audio: Wired for Books > Lia Purpura

• Interview with Lia Purpura by Margaret MacInnis[permanent dead link]

• Interviews > Smartish Pace > An Interview with Lia Purpura > by Laura Klebanow

• Guggenheim Fellowship

• Bookslut: Interview by Noah Charney

• When Beauty Stretches: Apercu Quarterly

• The Journal: Ohio State University Interview

• WYPR Maryland Morning. Interview with Tom Hall

• WYPR Maryland Morning : Rough Likeness

• Sarabande Books: "Author Speaks"

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Lia Purpura: Sun 3 Pisces, Moon 1 Cancer, Mercury 17 Aquarius, Venus 14 Aries, Mars 1 Pisces, Jupiter 18 Aries, Saturn 26 Aquarius, Uranus 8 Virgo, Neptune 17 Scorpio, Pluto 13 Virgo, Sun Conjunct Mars, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Semi Square Jupiter, Sun Conjunct Saturn, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Sextile Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Mars, Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Saturn, Venus Quincunx Pluto, Mars Semi Square Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Saturn, Jupiter Quincunx Neptune, Uranus Conjunct Pluto

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