Debra Allbery

American poet

Debra Allbery
Born	(1957-03-03) March 3, 1957 (age 67) Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Poet

Debra Allbery (born March 3, 1957, in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet.^[1]

Life

Allbery is an Ohio native,^[2] though she currently lives in Fairview, North Carolina.^[3] She has graduated from the College of Wooster, the University of Virginia, and the University of Iowa, has taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, the University of Michigan,^[4] and is the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she's been on the poetry faculty since 1983.^[5]

Her work has appeared in Crazy Horse, The Missouri Review,^[6] Ironwood, Iowa Review,^[7] Poetry, Ploughshares,^[8] TriQuarterly,^[2] 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.

Awards

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

Works

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. Archived from the original on 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-07-09.

References

^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Issues | Ploughshares".
^ "Debra Allbery". 13 November 1981.
^ "Debra Allbery : Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program". Archived from the original on 2008-10-05. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
^ "Friends of Writers".
^ Of English, University of Missouri--Columbia. Dept (1982). "The Missouri review". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "The Iowa Review: Spring 2004". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".