Sally Van Doren | |
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 Van Doren in 2018 | |
| Born | Sarah L. Van Cleve St. Louis, Missouri |
| Alma mater | Princeton University University of Missouri-St. Louis |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Spouse | John Van Doren (m. 1986) |
| Relatives | Charles Van Doren (father-in-law) |
Sally Van Doren is an American poet and visual artist from St. Louis, Missouri. She was awarded the 2007 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for her first collection of poems. Her third book of poems, Promise, was released in August 2017.
Sally Van Doren was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father, William M. Van Cleve, is a lawyer and chairman of the St. Louis-based law firm Bryan Cave. She is a graduate of Phillips Academy and Princeton University and received an M.F.A. from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She met her husband, John Van Doren, son of quiz show celebrity Charles Van Doren and grandson of Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren at Phillips Academy. The two married in 1986. [1] [2]
Van Doren has taught at the 92nd Street Y in New York, creative writing for the St. Louis Public Schools, Washington University in St. Louis and the St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center. She curates the Sunday Workshop Series for the St. Louis Poetry Center. [3] She is an associate editor at Boulevard and an advisory editor at December. She lives in St. Louis and Cornwall, Connecticut.
Van Doren's work has appeared in: American Poet, Barrow Street, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, December, Hubbub, LIT, LiveMag, Margie, The Moth, The New Republic,Parthenon West Review, Poetry Daily, Pool, River Styx, The Southern Review,Southwest Review,2River and Verse Daily. Her poem, "The Sense Series," was the text for a multimedia performance at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. [4]
Van Doren also read at the Princeton Poetry festival. [5]
Van Doren was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize for her poem, “Funk,” which appeared in Volume 29.2 of december magazine.
Van Doren was awarded the 2007 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for her first collection of poems, "Sex at Noon Taxes," which was published in the spring of 2008 by LSU Press.
She was a semi-finalist in the 2006 "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest.
Van Doren received the Kenneth O. Hanson Award in 2013 from Hubbub magazine for her poem, “Color Theory.” [6] She is the recipient of the Loy Ledbetter Award from the St. Louis Poetry Center. She also was a finalist in the Poets Out Loud Prize in 2012-2013. [7]
Van Doren's poetry has also been published in several magazines and journals, including American Letters and Commentary,Cimarron Review,5AM,Hubbub,Lumina, Mudlark, The New Republic, The Normal School, poets.org, Rhino, South Carolina Review, Tinge, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Western Humanities Review. [8] [9]
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