Paula W. Peterson is an American short story writer.
She graduated from Brandeis University and from the University of Michigan with an M.A. in English Literature.
Her short fiction has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Alligator Juniper, Iowa Review, Nimrod.
Peterson currently lives and writes in San Francisco, where she is involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy work.
Paula W. Peterson.
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Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.
Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.
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Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.
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Paula Gunn Allen was an American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American, Arab-American, and Native American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna Pueblo. Gunn Allen wrote numerous essays, stories and poetry with Native American and feminist themes, and two biographies of Native American women. She edited four collections of Native American traditional stories and contemporary writing.
Linda K. Hogan is an American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. She previously served as the Chickasaw Nation's writer in residence. Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Dorothy Barresi is an American poet.
Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont.
Rosanna Phelps Warren is an American poet and scholar.
Donna Masini is a poet and novelist who was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City.
Adria Bernardi is an American novelist and translator.
Mary Jo Bang is an American poet.
David Tucker is an American poet, and news editor.
Alison Townsend is an American poet.
Joyce Sutphen is an American poet who served as Minnesota's Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2021. She was the state's second laureate, appointed by Governor Mark Dayton in August, 2011 to succeed Robert Bly. Sutphen is professor emerita of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.
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