Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lia Purpura
According to the Guggenheim Foundation her essays have won the Pushcart Prize four times (her cv says three, but either way). It may not be quite what #C5 intends, but she's held named visiting professorships at the Universities of Alabama and Iowa. Along with abundant literary journal reviews of her books, I found a few newspaper articles covering her or her work in nontrivial depth: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/138159684.html http://www2.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=16902 http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/arts/umf-creative-writing-program-presents-lia-purpura-on-oct-13/. (Also three reviews in Publishers Weekly http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8203-2232-2 http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-882295-68-5 http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-932511-39-0, which is not itself a small press). So I think she's received enough attention outside her own milieu to pass 
— User:David, 03:25, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)