University Times

Pittsburgh author Nancy Krygowski is the 2006 winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, awarded by the University of Pittsburgh Press for an outstanding first full-length book of poetry. Her manuscript, “Velocity,” was selected from several hundred entries and will be published by the Press in fall 2007.

Established in 1981, the Starrett prize is named for the Press’s first director. The prize carries a $5,000 award and publication in the Press’s poetry series. The series, edited by Ed Ochester, was founded in 1968 to publish the best in contemporary American poetry.

Krygowski’s work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, River Styx and other magazines.

She is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts individual artist grant, a Pittsburgh Foundation grant and awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Associated Writing Programs.