Grace Bauer is an American poet. She lives in

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, grew up in

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and has also lived in

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and

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.http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/bauer.htm Profile at Nebraska Center for Writers

Biography

Bauer received her BA in journalism from

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. She received her MFA in Poetry from the

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. She has taught at the

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since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a reader for Prairie Schooner. Bauer was also the recipient of the Sorenson Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities. Bauer has been published in ''DoubleTake'', ''Poetry'', ''South Dakota Review'', ''Michigan Quarterly Review'', ''Southern Poetry Review'', ''New Orleans Review'', and elsewhere.

Awards

While at

, Bauer won the

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Prize. Her other awards include an Individual Artist's Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a Diggs Teaching Scholar Award and Women's Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, the Irene Leache Poetry Prize, a Nebraska Arts Council Award, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She also won the 1999 Snail's Pace Press Chapbook Competition. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Society of Midland Authors' Award for Poetry for her book ''Nowhere All at Once.''

Books

* ''Where You've Seen Her'' (Pennywhistle Press, 1993) * ''The House Where I've Never Lived'' (Anabiosis P, 1993) * ''The Women at the Well'' (Portals Press, 1997) * ''Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems on Marcel Duchamp'' * ''Beholding Eye'' (Custom Words, 2006) * ''Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Creative and Critical Responses to Everette Maddox'' (Xavier Review Press, Fall 2006). * ''Retreats and Recognitions'' (Lost Horse Press, 2007)http://english.unl.edu/faculty/profs/gbauer.html Website at University of Nebraska-Lincoln * ''Nowhere All at Once'' (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2014) * ''The Women at the Well'' (Stephen F. Austin University Press, forthcoming 2016)

References

External links

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September 2009 Interview with Grace Bauer by Lisa Romeo

April 2007 Review of Grace Bauer's ''Beholding Eye'' by Jason Jones
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