Debora Greger

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Debora Greger
Born1949 (age 7273)
Alma mater University of Washington
Scientific career
FieldsPoet
Institutions University of Florida

Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist.

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She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida until retiring. [1] > She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art.

Her poetry has been included in six volumes of The Best American Poetry and she has exhibited her artwork at several galleries and museums across the country. She also has a poem on Poetry 180 in number 42. [2] Her work appeared in Paris Review, The Nation, [3] Poetry, [4] and The New Criterion. [5]

She lives in Gainesville, Florida [6] and Cambridge, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic, William Logan.

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References

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  2. "The Poetry of Bad Weather". Library of Congress. Retrieved December 5, 2021.
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