Glori Simmons | |
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Born | 1966 (age 57–58) |
Occupation | Poet |
Alma mater | University of Michigan University of Washington |
Genre | Poetry |
Glori Simmons (born 1966) is an American poet, and short story writer.
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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