Sandra Simonds

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Sandra Simonds
Born1977
Washington, D.C.
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater University of Montana
University of California, Los Angeles
Florida State University
GenrePoetry, Fiction
Notable awardsCleveland State Poetry Prize, Akron Poetry Prize

Sandra Simonds is an American poet, critic and novelist. The author of eight books of poetry, her poems have been included in Best American Poetry and have appeared in literary journals including Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Boston Review, and Fence. In 2013, she won a Readers’ Choice Award for her sonnet “Red Wand.” [1] Her poetry reviews have been featured on the Poetry Foundation Website, the New York Times, the Harvard Review and the Kenyon Review. She is the 2023 winner of the Vermont Book Award in fiction.

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Simonds earned her Ph.D. in English and Poetry from Florida State University. [2] She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is a full professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia. [3]

Honors and awards

Books

Criticism

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References

  1. "Sandra Simonds". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  2. "Sandra Simonds, Guest Blogger". Best American Poetry. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  3. "An Interview with Sandra Simonds". University of Arizona Poetry Center. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2020.

Further reading


  1. "Tight Wires: On Sandra Simonds's "Assia"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 16 March 2023.
  2. "Impossible Epic: On Sandra Simonds's "Orlando"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 3 December 2018.