Debra Allbery

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 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.

• Walking Distance. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8229-3687-9.
• Fimbul-Winter. Four Way Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1-9355-3604-8.

• ""The Third Image": Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic". The Cortland Review. Spring 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-07-09.

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