Debra Allbery
Debra Allbery | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 3, 1957 Lancaster, Ohio, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable work | Walking Distance |
| Awards | Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (1990) |
Debra Allbery (born March 3, 1957, in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet.[1]
Life
[edit]Allbery is an Ohio native,[2] though she currently lives in Fairview, North Carolina.[3] She has graduated from the College of Wooster, the University of Virginia, and the University of Iowa, has taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, the University of Michigan,[4] and was the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College from 2009 to 2023, where she has served on the poetry faculty since 1995.[5]
Her work has appeared in Crazy Horse, The Missouri Review,[6] Ironwood, Iowa Review,[7] Poetry, Ploughshares,[8] TriQuarterly,[2] The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review, and she is among the poets included in The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones.
Awards
[edit]- 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Walking Distance
- 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship
- Two NEA fellowships
- 1989 "Discovery"/The Nation prize
- 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Walking Distance. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8229-3687-9.
- Fimbul-Winter. Four Way Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1-9355-3604-8.
Essays
[edit]- ""The Third Image": Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic". The Cortland Review. Spring 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
References
[edit]- ↑ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
- ↑ "Debra Allbery". 13 November 1981.
- ↑ "Debra Allbery : Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program". Archived from the original on 2008-10-05. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ↑ "Friends of Writers".
- ↑ Of English, University of Missouri--Columbia. Dept (1982). "The Missouri review".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "The Iowa Review: Spring 2004". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ↑ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
External links
[edit].
- 1957 births
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners
- College of Wooster alumni
- University of Virginia alumni
- University of Iowa alumni
- Warren Wilson College faculty
- Dickinson College faculty
- Randolph College faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- Living people
- American women academics
- 21st-century American writers
- 20th-century American women poets