Kelli Russell Agodon | |
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 Kelli Russell Agodon | |
| Born | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, editor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Washington Pacific Lutheran University |
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Kelli Russell Agodon (born in Seattle) is an American poet, writer, and editor. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press [1] and she serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. [2]
She was raised in Seattle, and graduated from the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University Rainier Writing Workshop with an MFA in creative writing. [3] She lives in Washington state. [4] Her works have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly,American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, [5] North American Review, Image, [6] 5 a.m, Meridian, Calyx., [7] poets.org, [8] and The Los Angeles Review . [9]
She lives in the Northwest. [10] She was the Editor-in-Chief of the Crab Creek Review from 2009 until 2014. She is the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. [11] She was the Co-Director of the Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women until 2021, an organization she founded with poet Susan Rich in 2010.
Agodon's book of poems, Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry.
Her book, Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014), was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize in Poetry.
Her book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (White Pine Press, 2010), won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize judged by Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Dennis. It then won the Foreword Indie Book of the Year Prize in Poetry, was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and voted as one of the Top 20 Books on GoodReads for Poetry.
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