Laurel Trivelpiece

Laurel Trivelpiece (1926, Nebraska – 1998)[1] was an American poet and novelist.

Life

Trivelpiece worked in her youth as fruit-picker and later, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English Literature, as an editor and copy-writer for Macys and other department stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lived in Corte Madera, California.[2]

Trivelpiece authored two poetry collections, four young adult novels, one adult novel, and prize-winning fiction and plays. Her second poetry collection, Blue Holes (Alice James Books, 1987), won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and one of her poems was included in Best American Poetry 1995. Her poems also appeared in literary journals and magazines including Poetry,[3][4] The Massachusetts Review,[5] The American Poetry Review,[6] and The Malahat Review.[7]

Her short story Gentle Constancy (Denver Quarterly, Fall) was acknowledged in the Distinctive Short Stories, 1970 list in The Best American Short Stories, 1971. Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN 978-0-395127-09-4.

Awards
  • 1987 Beatrice Hawley Award

Published works

Poetry Collections

  • Blue Holes. Alice James Books. 1987. ISBN 978-0-914086-74-1.
  • Legless in flight. Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd. 1978. ISBN 978-0-913506-05-9.

Young Adult Novels

  • Just a Little Bit Lost. Scholastic. 1988. ISBN 978-0-590-41465-4.
  • Trying Not to Love You. Pocket Books. 1985. ISBN 978-0-671-54394-5.
  • In Love and in Trouble. Schuster Merchandise. 1984. ISBN 978-0-671-50443-4.
  • During Water Peaches. Lippincott. 1979. ISBN 978-0-397-31831-5.

Adult Novels

  • Triad (as Hannah K. Marks). Pocket Books. 1980. ISBN 978-0-671-82724-3.

Anthology Publications

  • Richard Howard, David Lehman, eds. (1995). "Nursery". The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-80151-3.CS1 maint: uses editors parameter (link)

References
  1. "Crime Fiction IV - Allen J. Hubin". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  2. Alice James Books > Author Page > Laurel Trivelpiece Archived 2008-12-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "August 1992 : Poetry Magazine". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  4. "Poetry magazine : Published by the Poetry Foundation". Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  5. The Massachusetts Review > Table of Contents 1980 - 1989 > Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring, 1980 Archived 2009-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
  6. The American Poetry Review> January/February 1976 > Vol. 5 No. 1 - Online Edition > Contributors Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "BOOKS, antiquarian, used, old, remainders". Retrieved 3 April 2016.
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