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Amaryllis Chanda Feldman (born 1976) is an American poet. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and chair of the creative writing program at Oberlin College, [1] where she has taught since 2017. [2] Feldman was born in Tennessee in 1976. [3] [4] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago (1999), [5] as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Cornell University (2003). [1] [3] [6] She also held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010, [7] as well as a MacDowell Fellowship in 2009, [8] and National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2011. [9] Feldman has been noted in Callaloo as an example of Black people in poetry at American colleges and universities, alongside other Black poets. [10]

Her first collection, entitled Approaching the Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2018; the book contains four sections, with 22 poems total. [11] The collection received a positive review from Nan Cohen, [12] as well as a review from David M. Brunson. [13] A second collection, Glance, is in press from the same publisher as of 2024. [3]

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  1. 1 2 "Chanda Feldman". Oberlin College and Conservatory . Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  2. ↑ "Chanda Feldman, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing". The Oberlin Review . October 12, 2018. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  3. 1 2 3 "Chanda Feldman". Chanda Feldman. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  4. ↑ "Feldman, Chanda, 1976-". LC Linked Data Service . Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  5. ↑ Peart, Andrew; Schachter, Lauren (Summer 2020). "Releases". The University of Chicago Magazine . Retrieved 2024-04-06. Entries include an essay by Tyehimba Jess, AB'91, and poetry by Chanda Feldman, AB'99, and English PhD student Korey Williams, AM'14.
  6. ↑ "Poet honored". Cornell Chronicle . November 2010. Retrieved 2024-04-06. Chanda Feldman, MFA '03, won a $25,000 creative writing fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
  7. ↑ "Creative Writing Program: Former Stegner Fellows". Stanford University . Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  8. ↑ "Chanda Feldman". MacDowell . Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  9. ↑ "Chanda Feldman". National Endowment for the Arts . Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  10. ↑ Miller, Isaac Ginsberg (2017). "POETRY IS NOT A COUNTRY CLUB: Reflecting on "The Change"". Callaloo . 40 (3): 75–97. doi:10.1353/cal.2017.0121. JSTOR   26776378. For example, we might note the unprecedented number of Black poets holding posts at US colleges and universities, including ... Chanda Feldman at Oberlin College, ...
  11. ↑ Feldman, Chanda (2018). Approaching the Fields: Poems. LSU Press. ISBN   978-0-8071-6829-5. OCLC   1132665748.
  12. ↑ Cohen, Nan (2020-07-11). "Approaching the Fields by Chanda Feldman, Reviewed by Nan Cohen". RHINO. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  13. ↑ "Capsule Reviews". David Brunson. Retrieved 2024-04-06.


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