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Full Name
  
Debra Allbery

Name
  
Debra Allbery

Known for
  
Poet


Occupation
  
Poet

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Poet

Debra Allbery wwwfourwaybookscombooksauthorphotoallberyjpg

Born
  
March 3, 1957 (age 67) (
1957-03-03
)
Lancaster, Ohio

Books
  
Fimbul-Winter, Walking distance

Education
  
University of Iowa, College of Wooster, University of Virginia

Awards
  
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Award

Debra Allbery (born 3 March 1957 in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet.

Contents

Debra Allbery New Poetry by Debra Allbery CONSTRUCTION Literary Magazine

Life

Debra Allbery Clinic by Debra Allbery Chronic Town by Debra Allbery Poetry

She is an Ohio native. She graduated from College of Wooster, University of Virginia, and University of Iowa.

She taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, the University of Michigan. She is the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she has been on the poetry faculty since 1983.

Her work has appeared in Crazy Horse, The Missouri Review, Ironwood, Iowa Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review, and she is among the poets included in The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones.

She lives in Fairview, North Carolina.

Awards

  • 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Walking Distance
  • 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship
  • two NEA fellowships
  • "Discovery"/The Nation prize.
  • Poetry

  • Walking Distance. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8229-3687-9. 
  • Fimbul-Winter. Four Way Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1-9355-3604-8. 
  • Essays

  • ""The Third Image": Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic". THE CORTLAND REVIEW. Spring 2008. 
  • References

    Debra Allbery Wikipedia