Ben Doller
American poet and writer (born 1973)
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Ben Doller (previously Doyle) (born 1973 Warsaw, New York) is an American poet and writer.[1]
West Virginia University,
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Ben Doller | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) Warsaw, New York |
| Education | State University of New York at Oswego, West Virginia University, Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Poetry |
Life
Ben Doller is the author of several books of poetry. He currently teaches at University of California, San Diego.[2]
He graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego, and West Virginia University.
He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.[3]
Doller has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, West Virginia University, Denison University, Antioch University,[4] and in 2007, was distinguished visiting professor at Boise State University.[1]
He was formerly a co-editor of the Kuhl House Contemporary Poetry Series at the University of Iowa Press (until 2010), and vice-editor and designer of 1913 a journal of forms, and 1913 Press.[citation needed]
He read at AWP 2009.[5][failed verification]
He lives in San Diego with his partner & collaborator, the poet & writer Sandra Doller (formerly Miller). In 2007, the two merged their last names: Doyle + Miller = Doller.[6][7]
Awards
- Recipient of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award
Works
- "taxes"; "Oust Manacle"; "Same Problem", Coconut 10, October 2007
- "big deference betwixt throwing things and throwing things away"; "A POINTING HABIT"; "NICETIES"; "CHICKENSTRIPS", La Petite Zine
- "Daisy". Ploughshares. Winter 2008–09. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016.
- Added to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books, 2013.[8]
Poetry books
- Radio, Radio. Louisiana State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8071-2679-0.
- FAQ. Ahsahta Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-934103-05-0.
- Dead Ahead. Fence Books. 2010. ISBN 9781934200353
- Fauxhawk, Wesleyan University Press (2015). ISBN 9780819575869
Anthology
- Brenda Shaughnessy, ed. (2008). Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. Tin House Books. ISBN 978-0-9794198-9-8.[9]