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Elizabeth Robinson (born 1961, Denver, Colorado) is an American poet and professor, author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently Counterpart (Ahsahta Press, 2012), [1] "Three Novels" (Omnidawn, 2011) "Also Known A," (Apogee, 2009), and The Orphan and Its Relations (Fence Books, 2008). [2] [3] Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, the Denver Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, [4] and New American Writing. Her poems have been anthologized in "American Hybrid" (Norton, 2009), "The Best of Fence" (Fence, 2009), and Postmodern American Poetry (Norton, 2013) [5] With Avery Burns, Joseph Noble, Rusty Morrison, and Brian Strang, she co-edited 26 magazine. Starting in 2012, Robinson began editing a new literary periodical, Pallaksch. Pallaksch, with Steven Seidenberg. For 12 years, Robinson co-edited, with Colleen Lookingbill, the EtherDome Chapbook series which published chapbooks by emerging women poets. She co-edits Instance Press with Beth Anderson and Laura Sims. She graduated from Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. She moved from the Bay Area to Boulder, Colorado where she taught at the University of Colorado and at Naropa University. She has also taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has twice served as the Hugo Fellow at the University of Montana.

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Early life

Robinson was born in Denver, Colorado but grew up primarily in Southern California with four siblings. She began writing poetry soon after she became literate. Robinson spent her first [ clarification needed ] in college at the University of California, Davis, where she took courses from Karl Shapiro. After a year at Davis, she transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, where she worked extensively with Robert Kelly, but also studied with Edward Sanders and Robert Duncan. During the summer of 1984, she went to the summer writing program at (then) Naropa Institute where she had her first contact with Robert Creeley, another important mentor. At Brown University, where Robinson completed an MFA, she worked with Keith Waldrop (and was an intern with Burning Deck Press) and C.D. Wright.

Awards

Winner of Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry, 1994, 1995, 2006

Recipient of residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Headlands Center for the Arts

Published works

Full-length Collections

Chapbooks

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