Lola Haskins is an American
poet
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Life
She was born in New York, and raised in
northern California
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. Haskins has lived in
San Francisco
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, Greece, and Mexico. She now divides her time between Northern England and North-Central Florida.
She has published fourteen books—the outliers being a poetry advice book, an exploration of fifteen
Florida
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cemeteries, and a book of prose-poem fables about women, illustrated by Maggie Taylor.
Her work has appeared in ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'', ''
Beloit Poetry Journal
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'', ''
Prairie Schooner
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'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''Mississippi Review'', ''The London Review of Books'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Southern Review''.
She taught
computer science
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at the
University of Florida
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for 28 years. Then, from 2004 until 2015, she was on the faculty of the Rainier Writer's Workshop, a low res MFA program based at
Pacific Lutheran University
Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) is a private Lutheran university in Parkland, Washington. It was founded by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants in 1890. PLU is sponsored by the 580 congregations of Region I of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ame ...
.
Awards
* two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
* four individual artist fellowships from the state of Florida
* 1992
Iowa
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Poetry Prize, for ''Hunger''
* Florida Book awards for ''Still, the Mountain'' and ''The Grace to Leave''
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Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style.""PSA Annual Awar ...
from the
Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Ro ...
Works
"Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country", ''Poetry Foundation''
* ttp://www.thescreamonline.com/poetry/poetry7-1/haskins/lovestory.html "Love Story", ''The Scream''* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110711134618/http://www.gtweekly.com/2007121750986/a-e/poetry/poetry-by-lola-haskins "Untitled"; "The Interpreters"; "Five from the Lake", ''Good Times Santa Cruz''* ''How Small, Confronting Morning'', Jacar, 2016.
* ''The Grace to Leave'', publisher=Anhinga year=2012 url=http://anhinga.org/books/book_info.cfm?title=Grace%20to%20Leave
* ''Fifteen Florida Cemeteries, Strange Tales Unearthed'', publisher=University Press of Florida year=2011
* ''Still the Mountain'' publisher=Paper Kite Press year=2010 url=http://www.paperkitepress.com/shop.shtml
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* ''Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful'', State Street, 1990
Prose
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* ''Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed'', University Press of Florida, 2011
Anthologies
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''Ploughshares''
"Uchepas", ''Ploughshares'', Winter 1993-94 "Grass", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2002
References
External links
"Author's website"Lola Haskins", ''Fishouse''
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women poets
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Pacific Lutheran University faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women