Sandra McPherson
Her honors include grants from the Ingram Merrill
Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts fellowships, a
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and an award in literature
from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
She has taught at the University of Iowa's Writer's
Workshop, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and the
Art of the Wild Conference. She has published 8 full-sized
collections of poems, of which The Year of Our Birth
was nominated for the National Book Award. She has also
published nine chapbooks, including Beauty in Use.
McPherson's most recent books are: The Spaces between
Birds, Mother/Daughter Poems (1967-1995), and
Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals. She is founder of
the poetry chapbook press Swan Scythe Press.
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