Nancy Eimers (born 1954
Chicago
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) is an American
poet
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.
Life
She graduated from
Indiana University
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with an M.A., from the
University of Arizona
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with an M.F.A., and from the
University of Houston
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with a Ph.D. She teaches at
Western Michigan University
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. She is also a contributing editor at
The Alaska Quarterly Review
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.
Her work has appeared in ''Paris Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Field'', ''The Nation'', ''Antioch Review'', ''North American Review'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ''
Dunes Review''.
She lives in
Kalamazoo, Michigan
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.
Awards
* 1987 Nation “Discovery” Award
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* 1989, 1996 Two National Endowment for the Arts
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Creative Writing Fellowships
* 1997 Verna Emery Prize, for ''No Moon''
* 1998 Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama
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Works
"AFTERLIVES"; "SEPTEMBER RAIN", ''Bucknell''
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References
External links
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
1954 births
Living people
Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty
American women poets
American women academics
21st-century American women
20th-century American poets
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