Arda Collins | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Denver |
Genre | Poetry |
Arda Collins is an Armenian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry. [1] [2]
Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. [3]
She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. [4] [5] She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. [6]
Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, [7] jubilat, [8] The American Poetry Review, [9] A Public Space [10] and Gutcult.
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