English professor Joyelle McSweeney wins prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry

The University of Notre Dame’s Joyelle McSweeney, the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English, has won the Windham-Campbell Prize for her work in poetry. McSweeney, who chairs the Department of English in the College of Arts & Letters, was one of eight writers to win the prestigious annual global literary award, administered by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, which recognizes exemplary work across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Winners receive...