According to a statement issued by the campus, Monica Berlin, a lecturer at Knox College, passed away on November 4, 2022. It’s not confirmed whether she passed away naturally or as a result of other medical causes, despite some sources suggesting she had a heart attack. Regarding the funeral arrangements, nothing is said.
Everyone who remembered her expressed their condolences and memories of her on social media.
“On Thursday my beloved poetry professor—Monica Berlin—suddenly passed away. She was 5 or 6 yrs older than me—more like a sister than an authority. Monica was intensely private, but I remember her like this: great, empathetic eyes and a sly smile, like you share a terrific secret”.
“My work continues to be focused on contemporary events because they need my writing to speak out of and about this century that we live in,” Monica Berlin’s loved ones wrote in an online article. This is because I get easily distracted by the day’s news.
Monica Berlin graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Vermont College in 2002 and a Master of Arts in Literature and Composition from Western Illinois University in 1998. English writing bachelor of arts, Knox College, class of 1995.
Poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and American literature from the modern, contemporary, and twenty-first centuries are all creative writing that Monica Berlin has published.
Her honors include Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live, which won first place in the Adrian Matejka-judged Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018).
The 2013 New Measure Poetry Prize, chosen by Carolyn Forché, was given to them and Beth Marzoni by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. No Shape Bends the River So Long was the title of their winning poem (2015).
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