Debra Allbery

Allbery is an Ohio native,[2] though she currently lives in Fairview, North Carolina.[3] She has graduated from College of Wooster, University of Virginia, and University of Iowa, has taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, the University of Michigan,[4] and is the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she's been on the poetry faculty since 1983.[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.

• 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Walking Distance
• 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship
• Two NEA fellowships
• "Discovery"/The Nation prize.

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