Andrea Hollander (born April 28, 1947 in
Berlin, Germany
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) is an American
poet
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. Her most recent poetry collection is ''Blue Mistaken for Sky'' (
Autumn House Press
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History
Autumn House Press was founded in 1998 by Michael Simms when prominent American publishers, driven by econo ...
, 2018). Her work has appeared in ''New Ohio Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Georgia Review'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''New Letters'', ''FIELD'', ''Five Points'', ''Shenandoah'', and ''Creative Nonfiction''. She was raised in
Colorado
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,
Texas
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,
New York
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, and
New Jersey
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, and educated at
Boston University
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and the
University of Colorado
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. From 1991 till 2013, Hollander was writer-in-residence at
Lyon College
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History
Located in Batesville, Ar ...
. She was married from 1976 to 2011. Hollander lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops at The Attic Institute for Arts and Letters and at Mountain Writers Series.
Awards
* 2014 Oregon Literary Fellowship
* 2008 Subiaco Award for Literary Merit for Excellence in the Writing and Teaching of Poetry.
* 2007
National Endowment for the Arts
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Fellowship
* 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, for ''House Without a Dreamer''
* 1992
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* 1991 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
* D. H. Lawrence Fellowship
* Runes Poetry Award
* Arkansas Arts Council fellowships
Published works
Full-length poetry collections
* ''Blue Mistaken for Sky.'' Autumn House Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1-938769-33-7.
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Reviews
Utterly of-the-moment and thoroughly inclusive, ''When She Named Fire'', in step with this historical importance, will hold the attention of even the most well read of interested poetry connoisseur
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s: even those already well-acquainted with women writers in particular."When She Named Fire edited by Andrea Hollander Budy"
''Cold Front'', April 27, 2009.
See also
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Doren Robbins
References
External links
Andrea Hollander's website
* ttp://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/8/budy8.htm corlandreview.com "What I Need It For"; "What It Is"; August 1999
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1947 births
Living people
American women poets
Boston University alumni
National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Poets from Arkansas
People from Mountain View, Arkansas
21st-century American women