Debra Allbery (born March 3, 1957, in

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) is an American

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Life

Allbery is an

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native, though she currently lives in Fairview, North Carolina. She has graduated from the

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, the

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, and the

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, has taught at

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Randolph College Randolph College is a private liberal arts and sciences college in Lynchburg, Virginia. Founded in 1891 as Randolph-Macon Woman's College, it was renamed on July 1, 2007, when it became coeducational. The college's intercollegiate athletic tea ...

, the

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, and was the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at

Warren Wilson College Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a required course of study, work an on-campus j ...

from 2009-2023, where she has served on the poetry faculty since 1995. Her work has appeared in ''Crazy Horse'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''Ironwood'', ''Iowa Review'', ''Poetry'', ''Ploughshares'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''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

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for ''Walking Distance'' * 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship * Two NEA fellowships * 1989 "Discovery"/The Nation prize * 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry

Works

Poetry

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Essays

References

External links

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