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Christianne Balk (born 1953) is an American poet.


Life

Balk graduated with honors in biology from
Grinnell College Grinnell College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalis ...
and taught at the
University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...
. Her work has appeared in ''Pequod'', '' Crazyhorse'', ''Sulfur'', ''The Centennial Review'' ''The Missouri Review'', ''Sonora Review'', '' Prairie Schooner'' ''Harper's'', and ''
The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...
''. She lives in
Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...
, Washington, with her husband and daughter.


Awards

* 1985 Walt Whitman Award * 1994 Verna Emory Award


Works


Poetry

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Anthologies

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See also

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American poetry American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the Constitution of the United States, constitutional unification ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Balk, Christianne 1953 births Living people Grinnell College alumni Academic staff of the University of British Columbia American expatriate academics in Canada American women poets Writers from Seattle 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers American women academics