Debra Allbery
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Debra Allbery | |
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| Born | March 3, 1957 Lancaster, Ohio, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable work | Walking Distance |
| Awards | Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (1990) |
Debra Allbery (born March 3, 1957, in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet.[1]
Allbery is an Ohio native,[2] though she currently lives in Fairview, North Carolina.[3] She has graduated from the College of Wooster, the University of Virginia, and the University of Iowa, has taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, the University of Michigan,[4] and was the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College from 2009 to 2023, where she has served on the poetry faculty since 1995.[5]
Her work has appeared in Crazy Horse, The Missouri Review,[6] Ironwood, Iowa Review,[7] Poetry, Ploughshares,[8] TriQuarterly,[2] The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review, and she is among the poets included in The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones.
Awards
- 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Walking Distance
- 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship
- Two NEA fellowships
- 1989 "Discovery"/The Nation prize
- 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry
