Debra Allbery

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Debra Allbery
Born (1957-03-03) March 3, 1957 (age 66)
Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationPoet

Debra Allbery (born March 3, 1957 in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet. [1]

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Life

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 is the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she's been on the poetry faculty since 1983. [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

Works

Poetry

Essays

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References

  1. ↑ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Issues | Ploughshares".
  3. ↑ "Debra Allbery".
  4. ↑ "Debra Allbery : Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program". Archived from the original on 2008-10-05. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  5. ↑ "Friends of Writers".
  6. ↑ Of English, University of Missouri--Columbia. Dept (1982). "The Missouri review".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ↑ "The Iowa Review: Spring 2004". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  8. ↑ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".

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