Jessica Fisher

Jessica Fisher
Born	(1976-03-12) March 12, 1976 (age 49) Claremont, California
Alma mater	Swarthmore College University of California at Berkeley
Genre	Poetry

Jessica Fisher (born March 12, 1976, in Claremont, California) is an American poet, translator, and critic. In 2012, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ^[1]

Her first book, Frail-Craft, won the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. ^[2] Her second book, Inmost, won the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize.

Life

Her poems and translations appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review, ^[3] At Length, ^[4] The Believer, ^[5] the Colorado Review, ^[6] McSweeney's, The New Yorker, ^[7] The New York Review of Books, ^[8] The Paris Review, ^[9] The Threepenny Review, ^[10] and TriQuarterly. ^[11] With Robert Hass, she co-edited The Addison Street Anthology; this book serves as a guide to the Berkeley Poetry Walk, ^[12] which was named a National Poetry Landmark by the Academy of American Poets. ^[13]

She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was the Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics from 2009 to 2011.

She is the daughter of Ann Fisher-Wirth.

Awards

• The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, awarded by the American Academy in Arts and Letters, 2012-2013
• Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, 2011
• Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetry and Poetics, University of California at Berkeley, 2009-2011
• Northern California Book Award, finalist, 2008
• Yale Younger Poets Prize, 2006
• Djerassi Residency Fellowship, 2005 ^[14]
• Eisner Award in Poetry, 2000 and 2002 ^[15]

Books

Poetry

• Fisher, Jessica (2007). Frail-Craft . Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-12235-0.
• Fisher, Jessica (2012). Inmost. Nightboat Books. ISBN   978-1-937658-00-7.

Edited

• Fisher, Jessica; Hass, Robert, eds. (2004). The Addison Street Anthology. Heyday Books. ISBN   978-1-890771-94-2.

Translations

• The Paris Review, "The Swallow's Testicles," a translation of a poem by Hans Arp
• The New York Review of Books, "Forget", a translation of a poem by Czeslaw Milosz

Reviews

• The New Yorker, Ligaya Mishan
• Library Journal
• Boston Review Archived 2013-02-18 at the Wayback Machine , Amelia Klein
• Kenyon Review, Meghan O'Rourke
• The Missouri Review ^{[ permanent dead link ]}, Chad Parmenter
• The Rumpus, T Fleischmann

References

1. "2012–13 Rome Prize Winners Announced | American Academy in Rome". 26 April 2012.
2. "Northern California Book Award nominations - Bibliolatry - April 6, 2008 - Blogs - Sacramento News & Review". www.newsreview.com. Archived from the original on 2019-12-15.
3. "March/April 2010 | the American Poetry Review". Archived from the original on 2012-01-06. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
4. "At Length » Defect".
5. "Contributors". 2 October 2023.
6. "Colorado Review - Center for Literary Publishing | Colorado State University".
7. "The Right to Pleasure"
8. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/dec/20/forget/ "Forget"
9. "Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists".
10. "Threepenny: Issue 109, Spring 2007".
11. http://triquarterly.org
12. "01.12.2005 - Concrete imagery".
13. "The Poetry Walk in Berkeley, CA | Academy of American Poets".
14. "1999 Djerassi Artists". www.djerassi.org. Archived from the original on 2000-02-29.
15. "UC Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships Office: Undergraduates » Types of Aid » Prizes and Honors » Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prizes in Poetry and Prose". Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2012-10-15.

External links

• Fisher's page at Nightboat Books