Valerie Wohlfeld

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Valerie Wohlfeld
Born1956 (age 6768)
Sacramento, California, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Education American University
Sarah Lawrence College
Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA)
GenrePoetry

Valerie Wohlfeld, (b. 1956 in Sacramento, California) is an American poet.

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Life

She was educated at American University, and Sarah Lawrence College, and received an M.F.A. from Vermont College in 1983. Valerie Wohlfeld's 1994 collection, Thinking the World Visible, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her book, Woman with Wing Removed, came out in 2010 from Truman State University Press. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, New England Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, and elsewhere.

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