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Language
  
English

Name
  
Colleen McElroy

Nationality
  
African American

Role
  
Poet

Notable works
  
Sidewalk Games

Awards
  
American Book Awards


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Alma mater
  
Kansas State University

Education
  
Kansas State University, University of Washington

Books
  
Over the Lip of the World, A long way from St Louie, Sleeping with the Moon, What madness brought, Jesus and Fat Tuesday

Notable awards
  
American Book Award

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Colleen J. McElroy (born October 31, 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American poet, short story writer, editor, memoirist.

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Life

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She graduated from Kansas State University (1958) and from the University of Washington with a Ph.D. (1973). She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Awards

  • 1978 awarded the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry
  • 1985 American Book Award
  • 1988 Fulbright Creative Writing Fellowship, which took her to Yugoslavia
  • 1991 awarded the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Fiction
  • 1992 DuPont Distinguished Scholar in Residence
  • 1991 Rockefeller Fellowship to the Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy
  • 1993 Fulbright Creative Writing Fellowship, which took her to Madagascar.

    • Poetry

  • Sidewalk Games'
  • Webs and Weeds
  • Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
  • Lothar's Wife
  • Sleeping with the moon: poems
  • Travelling music
  • Bone Flames: Poems
  • Music from home: selected poems

    • Memoirs

  • A Long Way from St. Louie
  • Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar

    • Short Stories

  • Driving under the cardboard pines and other stories
  • Jesus and Fat Tuesday: and other short stories

    • Anthologies

  • Best American Poetry 2001
  • Oxford Anthology of African American Literature

    • Ploughshares

  • While Poets Are Watching
  • Caution: This Woman Brakes for Memories
  • Paris Subway Tango
  • Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy
  • Furlough

    • References

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