Ann Fisher-Wirth

Ann Fisher-Wirth (born 25 January 1947) is an American poet and scholar, based at the University of Mississippi.^[1] She has won several teaching awards, including Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year (2006), Humanities Teacher of the Year (2007), and the Elsie M. Hood Award (2014).^[2] Her poetry has received numerous awards, including several Pushcart nominations and a Pushcart Special Mention.^[3]

Fisher-Wirth is the daughter of a career Army officer and an English teacher.^[3] She was born in Washington, D. C., and lived as a child in Germany, Pennsylvania, and Japan before her father retired from the Army and her parents decided to move to Berkeley, California.^[4]

She earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in English from Pomona College in 1968;^[1][5] an M.A. degree in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate School in 1972;^[1] and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate Schoolin 1981.^[1]

She has served as President of the international Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), has had a senior Fulbright to the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and has held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Uppsala University, Sweden.^[3] She has been teaching at the University of Mississippi since 1988.^[1]

Her scholarly work has concentrated primarily on William Carlos Williams and Willa Cather, but she has published on other writers including Cormac McCarthy, Louise Gluck, Robert Hass, and Anita Brookner.^[1]

• The Bones of Winter Birds, Terrapin Press (2019)
• Mississippi, poems by Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay, Wings Press (2018)
• First, earth, The Chapbook (2015)
• The Ecopoetry Anthology, coedited with Laura-Gray Street, Trinity University Press (2013)
• Dream Cabinet, Wings Press (2012)
• Carta Marina, Wings Press (2009)
• Slide Shows, Finishing Line Press (2009)
• Five Terraces, Wind Publications (2005)
• Walking Wu-Wei's Scroll, Drunken Boat (2005)
• Blue Window, Archer Books (2003)
• The Trinket Poems, Wind Publications (2003)
• William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature, Penn State University Press (1989)

• The Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Mississippi (2014)^[2]
• Finalist, Poet Laureate of Mississippi (2012)^[3]
• University of Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year (2007)^[2]
• University of Mississippi Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year (2006)^[2]
• President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (2006)^[6]
• Literary Artist Fellowship for poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission (2005)^[7]
• Writing Residency, Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, Calif. (2005)^[7]
• Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award (2004)^[8]
• Rita Dove Poetry Award from the Salem College Center for Women Writers (2004)^[7]
• Malahat Review Long Poem Prize (2003)^[7]
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden (2003) ^[6]
• Literary Artist Fellowship for poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission (1998)^[9]
• Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1994)^[6]

She is married to Peter Wirth.^[4] Her daughter, Jessica Fisher, is also a poet.

• Ann Fisher-Wirth
• University of Mississippi –M.F.A. English - Ann Fisher-Wirth