Ann Victoria "A V." Christie (February 2, 1963 – April 7, 2016) was an American

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Life

Ann Victoria Christie was born in Redwood City, California. She was raised in California's San Francisco Bay area as well as in Montana, and British Columbia. A graduate of

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, she received her

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degree from the

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. She was a visiting writer and writer-in-residence at colleges along the Pennsylvania Main Line and regionally, including Villanova and La Salle universities;

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; Goucher College in Baltimore; the

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; and

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. Her first poetry collection, ''Nine Skies'', won the 1996 National Poetry Series prize. The poet Henri Cole described it as "hard-bitten, luxuriant and true," and the Philadelphia-area poet

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called it "diamond-faceted, elliptical." W.S. DiPiero said of her 2014 collection The Wonders that "her poems invoke and respect strangeness and make strangeness feel near." Her poems, reviews, and interviews appeared in ''AGNI'', ''

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'', ''Poetry'', ''Excerpt'', ''Iowa Review'', ''Commonweal'', ''The Journal'', ''Ploughshares'', and ''Prairie Schooner''. Her collection ''The Housing'' (2004) was co-winner of the Robert McGovern Publication Prize. ''The Wonders'' (2014), a chapbook-length poem and Editor's Selection, was published by Seven Kitchens Press. Her chapbook ''And I Began to Entertain Doubts'' was published in May 2016 by Folded Word Press.

Death

Christie died of breast cancer in

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, aged 53."A.V. Christie, award-winning local poet, dies"
philly.com, April 16, 2016; accessed June 21, 2017.

Awards

* 1997 National Poetry Series, for ''Nine Skies'' * 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize co-winner, for ''The Housing'' * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship * Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowship * Ludwig Vogelstein Fellowship

Works

* * ''The Housing.'' Ashland Poetry Press. 2004. * ''The Wonders.'' Seven Kitchens Press. 2014. *

Anthologies

References

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