Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than twenty collections of poetry for adults and children. In 1992 Nelson’s book The Homeplace won the  Annisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems won the 1998 Poets’ Prize and was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, and the Lenore Marshall Prize. Her young adult book, A Wreath For Emmett Till, won the 2005 Boston Globe Horn Book Award and was a 2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book, a 2006 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and a 2006 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book. She has been awarded two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 2019 Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America’s  Frost Medal for “distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.” A more complete list of Nelson’s achievements can be found online here: Marilyn Nelson biography. Examples of Nelson’s work can be found online at the Poetry Foundation.