Sandra Simonds is an American

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, critic and novelist. The author of eight books of poetry, her poems have been included in ''Best American Poetry'' and have appeared in literary journals including ''Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Boston Review,'' and ''Fence''. In 2013, she won a Readers’ Choice Award for her sonnet “Red Wand.” Her poetry reviews have been featured on the Poetry Foundation Website, the New York Times, the Harvard Review and the Kenyon Review. She is the 2023 winner of the Vermont Book Award in fiction. Simonds earned her

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in English and Poetry from

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. She lives in

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, and is a full professor of English and Humanities at

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Honors and awards

* Vermont Book Award in Fiction, 2023 * Akron Poetry Prize, 2015 * Best American Poetry 2015 * Best American Poetry 2014 * Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition Prize 2012

Books

* ''Assia'' (

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, 2023) * ''Triptychs'' (

Wave Books Wave Books (established 2005) is an American independent press focusing on the publication of poetry, with a focus on innovative, contemporary poetry and poetry in translation. Books published by Wave have been finalists for and winners of the Pu ...

, 2022) * ''Atopia'' (

Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The press is currently directed by Suzanna Tamminen, a published poet and essayist. History and overview Founded (in its present form ...

, 2019) * ''Orlando'' (

, 2018) * ''Further Problems with Pleasure'' (University of Akron Press, 2017) * ''Steal It Back'' ( Saturnalia Books, 2015) * ''The Sonnets'' ( Bloof Books, 2014) * ''Mother Was a Tragic Girl'' (

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, 2012) * ''Warsaw Bikini'' ( Bloof Books, 2009)

Criticism

Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon
Review of Roger Reeves, April, 2023.

Review of Heather McHugh, June, 2020.

Review of Four Poets. May, 2020.
Review of Ariana Reines's A Sand Book
Jan, 2020.
Riot Girl: Chelsey Minnis’s Unladylike Poetry.
April, 2019.

Honors and awards

Books

Criticism

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Further reading

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