T. Alan Broughton

T. Alan Broughton was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1936,and spent his childhood on the campus of Bryn Mawr College where his parents worked. When fifteen he spent a year in Rome and has often revisited the city and Italy. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music as a classical pianist, graduated from Swarthmore College and the University of Washington, and taught for 35 years at the University of Vermont where he established the Writers' Workshop Program and was the Corse Professor of English Language and Literature. He has received numerous rewards for his poems and fiction such as inclusion in the O'Henry Awards and Best American Poetry, Tate Award for Best Poems Published (2008) in Sewanee Review, and is the recipient of grants from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation. He has three children, four grandchildren, and lives with his wife in Burlington, Vermont, and Keene Valley, New York.