Geri Doran

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Geri Doran
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Born1966
Kalispell, Montana
OccupationPoet
Professor
Nationality American
GenrePoetry

Geri Doran was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1966. Doran has attended Vassar College, the University of Cambridge, the University of Florida (MFA 1995), and Stanford University, where she held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in Eugene, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon.

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