Toi Derricotte was born on April 12,1941 and is an American poet.
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Toi Derricotte is the author of six poetry collections and a literary memoir.
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Toi Derricotte has won numerous literary awards, including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry awarded by the Poetry Society of America, and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.
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Toi Derricotte is currently a professor emerita in writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Toi Derricotte is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.
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The only child of Benjamin and Antonia Webster, Toi Derricotte was born Toinette Webster on April 12,1941 in Hamtramck, Michigan.
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Toi Derricotte later attended Wayne State University, where she studied psychology, but her studies were interrupted by an unplanned pregnancy, and her marriage to artist, Clarence Reese.
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Toi Derricotte changed her studies to Special Education and graduated with a BA in 1965.
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Toi Derricotte published her first poetry collection, The Empress of the Death House, in 1978.
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Toi Derricotte later earned an MA in English Literature from New York University.
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In 1991, Toi Derricotte became an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Toi Derricotte co-founded the Cave Canem Foundation, a national poetry organization in 1996, with American writer, Cornelius Eady.
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In 2012, Toi Derricotte was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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Toi Derricotte is currently a professor emerita in writing at the University of Pittsburgh.