Debra Allbery

Debra Allbery
Born	(1957-03-03) March 3, 1957 (age 68) Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Poet

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

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 was the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College from 2009-2023, where she has served on the poetry faculty since 1995. ^[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

• 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Walking Distance
• 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship
• Two NEA fellowships
• 1989 "Discovery"/The Nation prize
• 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry

Works

Poetry

• Walking Distance . University of Pittsburgh Press. 1991. ISBN   978-0-8229-3687-9.
• Fimbul-Winter . Four Way Books. 2010. ISBN   978-1-9355-3604-8.

Essays

• ""The Third Image": Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic". The Cortland Review. Spring 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-07-09.

References

1. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
2. "Issues | Ploughshares".
3. "Debra Allbery". 13 November 1981.
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".