Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist.
She was raised in
Richland, Washington.
She attended the
University of Washington and then the
Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at
Harvard University's
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was professor of English and creative writing at the
University of Florida until retiring.
> She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art.
Her poetry has been included in six volumes of ''
The Best American Poetry'' and she has exhibited her artwork at several galleries and museums across the country. She also has a poem on Poetry 180 in number 42.
Her work appeared in ''Paris Review'', ''The Nation'', ''Poetry'', and ''The New Criterion''.
She lives in
Gainesville, Florida
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and
Cambridge, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic,
William Logan.
Awards
*2012:
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
*2004:
John William Corrington
John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 – November 24, 1988) was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet, and lawyer.
Corrington attended St. John's High School (now known as Loyola College Prep), but was expelled after smo ...
Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College
*1996:
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Finalist
*1991:
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
*1990: Award in Literature from the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
*1988: Brandeis University Poetry Award
*1987:
Academy of American Poets' Peter I.B. Lavan Award
*1987: Fellowship from the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...
*1985:
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
*1982: Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
*1979: "Discovery"/''
The Nation'' Poetry Prize
*1977: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fellowship
*1974: Grolier Prize in Poetry
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Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
Books
*2017: ''In Darwin's Room''. Penguin.
*2012: ''By Herself''. Penguin.
*2008: ''Men, Women, and Ghosts''. Penguin.
*2004: ''Western Art''. Penguin.
*2001: ''God''. Penguin.
*1996: ''Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters''. Penguin.
*1994: ''Off-Season at the Edge of the World''. University of Illinois Press.
*1990: ''The 1002nd Night''. Princeton University Press.
*1985: ''Blank Country'' (limited edition chapbook). Meadow Press.
*1985: ''And''. Princeton University Press.
*1980: ''Cartography'' (limited edition chapbook). Penumbra Press.
*1980: ''Movable Islands''. Princeton University Press.
References
External links
University of Florida Faculty Listing
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1949 births
University of Florida faculty
Living people
University of Washington alumni
University of Iowa alumni
Radcliffe fellows
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
American women poets
People from Walsenburg, Colorado
American women academics
21st-century American women