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Christianne Balk (born 1953) is an American poet.


Life

Balk graduated with honors in biology from
Grinnell College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell has the fifth highest endowment-to-st ...
and taught at the
University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...
. Her work has appeared in ''Pequod'', ''Crazy Horse'', ''Sulfur'', ''The Centennial review'' ''The Missouri Review'', ''Sonora Review'', ''Prairie Schooner'' ''Harper's'', and ''The New Yorker''. She lives in
Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
, Washington, with her husband and daughter.


Awards

* 1985
Walt Whitman Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...
* 1994 Verna Emory Award


Works


Poetry

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Anthologies

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See also

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American poetry American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Balk, Christianne 1953 births Living people Grinnell College alumni University of British Columbia faculty American women poets Writers from Seattle 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers American expatriates in Canada American women academics