Lia Purpura

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Lia Purpura is the author of It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin Books, 2015); King Baby (Alice James Books, 2008); Stone Sky Lifting (Ohio State University Press, 2000); and The Brighter Veil (Orchises Press, 1996). She is also the author of the essay collections Rough Likeness (Sarabande Books, 2011); On Looking (Sarabande Books, 2006), a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist; and Increase (University of Georgia Press, 2000). 

Purpura currently teaches at the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore.