Emily Hiestand

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Emily Hiestand (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.

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Life

She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at Boston University, with George Starbuck. [1]

She was an editor at Orion magazine and the Atlantic Monthly. [2]

Her work appears in Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe Magazine, Bostonia, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New York Times, Orion, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Southeast Review, The Nation, [3] The New Yorker. [4] [5]

Awards

Works

Essays

Poetry

Anthologies

Reviews

Emily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar. [6]

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References

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  2. "Poetry Reading by Emily Hiestand | College of the Holy Cross". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
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  4. "Travel Slides". The New Yorker . 14 August 1995.
  5. "Emily Hiestand". 25 May 1994.
  6. Leslie Chess Feller (April 18, 1999). "Books in Brief". The New York Times.