Angela Sorby is a poet, professor, and literary scholar.
She was born in Seattle, Washington and teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature.
Distance Learning (New Issues Press, 1998);Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry (University Press of New England, 2005)Bird Skin Coat (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013The Sleeve Waves (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.Felix Pollak PrizeJohn Fiske Poetry Prize, University of ChicagoMidwest Book AwardBrittingham Prize in Poetry Lorine Niedecker AwardFulbright fellowshipHonor Book Prize from the Children's Literature AssociationDiscovery/The Nation PrizeLorine Niedecker Prize
