Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond

Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond

Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond received her Master's degree in Creative Writing from Brown University in 1985, where she was also a University Fellow and where she won the University Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond

Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond received her Master's degree in Creative Writing from Brown University in 1985, where she was also a University Fellow and where she won the University Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

In 1991 she won a scholarship to attend the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, studying with Galway Kinnell, Lucilee Clifton, Sharon Olds, and C.K. Williams. She was awarded second prize from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in 1990 and was a finalist in this competition in 1987, 1989, and 1991. She has been published in The Worcester Magazine, Northeast Journal, Sandscript, Sojourner , and numerous other magazines, and has taught poetry, literature, and social work courses at Brown, Rhode Island College, Providence College, and Dean College, and in adult education programs. She is currently a doctoral student at Simmons College, works as a social worker and lives in southern Massachusetts, where she and her husband, also a social worker, are raising their two daughters.