Name Ellery Akers | Role Writer | |
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Books Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story about Sexual Abuse, Knocking on the earth Education Harvard University, San Francisco State University | ||
Interview with roy mash and ellery akers by neshama franklin
Ellery Akers (born 1946) is an award-winning American writer and artist living on the Northern California Coast. She is the author of two poetry collections, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth, as well as a children’s novel, Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse. She received a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. from San Francisco State University.
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Akers has won thirteen national writing awards, including the 2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize, the John Masefield Award, the Poetry International Prize, and Sierra magazine’s Nature Writing Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and American Life in Poetry and has appeared in such journals as The American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine and The Sun.
She has taught writing at Cabrillo College and at conferences and currently teaches private poetry workshops. Among her honors are fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts.