Debora Greger
Encyclopedia
Debora Greger is an award-winning American
poet as well as a visual artist.
She was raised in Richland, Washington
.
She attended the University of Washington
and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop
. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University
's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
. She is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida
.
Her poetry has been included in six volumes of The Best American Poetry
and she has exhibited her artwork at several galleries and museums across the country. She also has a poem on Poetry 180 in number 42.
Her work appeared in Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, and The New Criterion.
She lives in Gainesville, Florida
and Cambridge
, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic, William Logan
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poet as well as a visual artist.
She was raised in Richland, Washington
Richland, Washington
Richland is a city in Benton County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Washington, at the confluence of the Yakima and the Columbia Rivers. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 48,058. April 1, 2011 estimates from the Washington State Office of Financial Management put the...
.
She attended the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...
. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard is an educational institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one of the semiautonomous components of Harvard University. It is heir to the name and buildings of Radcliffe College, but unlike that historical institution, its focus is directed...
. She is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
.
Her poetry has been included in six volumes of The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...
and she has exhibited her artwork at several galleries and museums across the country. She also has a poem on Poetry 180 in number 42.
Her work appeared in Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, and The New Criterion.
She lives in Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...
and Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic, William Logan
William Logan (poet)
William Logan is an American poet, critic and scholar.-Life:Logan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his wife, the poet and artist, Debora Greger...
.
Awards
- 2004: John William CorringtonJohn William CorringtonJohn William Corrington was an American movie and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer. He received a B.A. degree from Centenary College, in 1956 and his M.A. from Rice University in 1960, the year he took on his first teaching position in the English Department at Louisiana State University...
Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College - 1996: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Finalist
- 1991: National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Fellowship - 1990: Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1988: Brandeis University Poetry Award
- 1987: Academy of American PoetsAcademy of American PoetsThe Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art of poetry. The Academy was incorporated as a "membership corporation" in New York State in 1934...
' Peter I.B. Lavan Award - 1987: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
- 1985: National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Fellowship - 1982: Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
- 1979: "Discovery"/The NationThe NationThe Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
Poetry Prize - 1977: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fellowship
- 1974: Grolier Prize in Poetry
Books
- 2004: Western Art. Penguin.
- 2001: God. Penguin.
- 1996: Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters. Penguin.
- 1994: Off-Season at the Edge of the World. University of Illinois Press.
- 1990: The 1002nd Night. Princeton University Press.
- 1985: Blank Country (limited edition chapbook). Meadow Press.
- 1985: And. Princeton University Press.
- 1980: Cartography (limited edition chapbook). Penumbra Press.
- 1980: Movable Islands. Princeton University Press.