Lyn Coffin


Lyn Coffin is an American poet, writer, translator, and editor.

Biography

She has been an Associate Editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review and previously taught English at the University of Washington, Renton High School, the University of Michigan Residential College, Detroit University, MIAD, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Ilia State University at Tbilisi, Georgia, Jih Elementary School at Marianské Lázně, Czechoslovakia, and Mando Technical Institute, as well as Council House and the Summit at Capitol Hill.
Coffin is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and translation. She has published fiction, poetry and non-fiction in over fifty quarterlies and small magazines, including Catholic Digest and Time magazine. One of her fictions, originally published in the Michigan Quarterly Review appeared in Best American Short Stories 1979, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Her plays have been performed at theaters in Malaysia, Singapore, Boston, New York, Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Seattle. She has given poetry readings with Nobel Prize winners Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz, and Philip Levine, among others.
She is a member of Washington Poets' Association, Poets West, and Greenwood Poets. Poezia Press published Coffin's translation in shairi of The Knight in the Panther Skin "Shota Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther Skin", a 12th-century epic poem from the country of Georgia. It has been largely unknown to English-speaking audiences because few translations have been produced.

Awards

While a student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she won Major and Minor Hopwood Awards in every category.
Coffin was awarded SABA, the Georgian National Literature Prize in 2016.

Books