Debora Greger

Debora Greger (born 1949 Walsenburg, Colorado) is an American poet as well as a visual artist.[1]

Debora Greger
Born1949
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Scientific career
FieldsPoet
InstitutionsUniversity of Florida

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 was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida until retiring.[2] She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art.

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.[3] Her work appeared in Paris Review, The Nation,[4] Poetry,[5] and The New Criterion.[6]

She lives in Gainesville, Florida [7] and Cambridge, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic, William Logan.

Awards

Books

  • 2017: In Darwin's Room. Penguin.
  • 2012: By Herself. Penguin.
  • 2008: Men, Women, and Ghosts. Penguin.
  • 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.

References

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