Glori Simmons

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Glori Simmons
Born1966 (age 5758)
OccupationPoet
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
University of Washington
GenrePoetry

Glori Simmons (born 1966) is an American poet, and short story writer.

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Simmons graduated from the University of Washington and from the University of Michigan with an MFA. She was a 2003 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. [1]

She is the author of Graft/Poems (Truman State University Press, [2] 2001) and the recipient of the 2015 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal , Chelsea 79, Five Fingers Review [3] and Quarterly West. [4]

She is the director of the Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco. [5]

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References

  1. "10 writers named Stegner Fellows from pool of 1,300 applicants".
  2. "Graft Glori Simmons poetry book T. S. Eliot". Truman State University Press. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  3. Bachman, Merle (2002). Five Fingers Review. ISBN   9781880627099.
  4. "Contributors".
  5. Henke, Tom (2015-10-27). "Thacher Gallery". University of San Francisco. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  6. "Angie Estes and Glori Simmons - Poetry Society of America". Archived from the original on 2010-04-10. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
  7. "The Camargo Foundation : Fellow Project Details". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-12-03.