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Ai, poet and National Book Award winner, dies at 62

By Claire Noland
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Ai, 62, a poet who won the National Book Award in Poetry in 1999 for her collection called ‘Vice,’ died suddenly on Saturday in Oklahoma. Ai, who had a master of fine arts from UC Irvine, had been teaching creative writing at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater since 1999.

Her other works included ‘Cruelty,’ ‘Killing Floor,’ ‘Sin,’ Fate,’ ‘Greed’ and ‘Dread.’

Click here to read more from Carolyn Kellogg at the Times’ book blog, Jacket Copy.

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-- Claire Noland

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Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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