Nancy K. Pearson

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Nancy K. Pearson
Born1969 (age 55–56)
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Virginia (BA)
George Mason University (MFA)
University of Houston
GenrePoetry

Nancy K. Pearson (born 1969) is an American poet. She is the author of The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone [1] (Fordham University Press, 2016) and Two Minutes of Light (Perugia Press, 2008).

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Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines including Five Points, Oxford American Magazine, Alaska Quarterly, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Provincetown Arts Magazine, and others.

Nancy K. Pearson reading at Split This Rock 2018, Washington, D.C. Nancy K. Pearson 4190041.jpg
Nancy K. Pearson reading at Split This Rock 2018, Washington, D.C.

Her honors include winning the 2015 Poets Out Loud Prize, The 2015 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry and The 2014 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction, the Perugia Press Prize, the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, The Massachusetts Book Awards "Must Read Book of 2009" and two seven-month fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Life

Pearson was born in 1969, [2] grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She received her B.A. from University of Virginia, her M.F.A. in Poetry from George Mason University, and Nonfiction from the University of Houston, where she taught literature and writing. She is currently an Assistant Professor (English) at West Chester University, PA, has been a faculty member at 24 Pearl Street and has taught at The Fine Arts Work Center's Summer Program. [3] [4] [5]

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