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THE JULY 2009 PUBLIC SCHEDULE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
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June 1st, 2009
We are enormously pleased to welcome Debra Allbery as the new director of our MFA Program for Writers.
Debra has taught with us for six semesters, beginning in 1995. She has served on the Academic Board and has served the program in various capacities over the past 14 years. In addition, Deb has administrative and organizational experience rare among writers and teachers, having worked for many years in the book industry; she also created and ran the onsite bookstore for six Dodge Poetry Festivals. She has been writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and Interlochen Arts Academy, and has taught at Randolph College, Dickinson College, and the University of Michigan. Her husband, Matthew, works in book retailing; they have an 8-year-old son, Wyatt.
Debra holds a BA from The College of Wooster, an MA from the University of Virginia, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her many awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, a “Discovery”/The Nation award, a Hawthornden Fellowship, and two NEA Fellowships. Deb’s first book, Walking Distance, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press; her second, Fimbul-Winter, will be published by Four Way Books in October 2010. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Western Humanities Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals; her essay, “The Third Image: Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic” was published in The Cortland Review (www.cortlandreview.com) in the spring of 2009.
NOW AVAILABLE!
POET'S WORK, POET'S PLAY: Essays on the Practice and the Art
(Each time a book (any book!) is purchased through the above link, Amazon will contribute a percentage of the sale to Friends of Writers!!!)
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