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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