Colin Cheney (born 1978

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) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

. His debut collection, ''Here Be Monsters'', was selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009. His work has appeared in many publications including ''American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine.'' He is an editor of ''Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art''. He graduated from

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, with a BA in Environmental Studies in 2001. In 2007, he received an MFA from

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. He lives in

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, where works as a visiting instructor at the Maine College of Art. He is the brother of film producer

Ian Cheney Ian Cheney is an American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer. Early life and education Cheney grew up in Massachusetts and Maine, attended The Mountain School, a semester school for high school juniors, and graduated from Mil ...

Awards

*2006 Ruth Lilly Fellowships *2009

National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and c ...

*2010 Pushcart Prize for the poem "Lord God Bird"

Works

*"Half-Ourselves & Half-Not", ''Poetry'' (September 2009) *"Ars Poetica with Vulture", ''Kenyon Review'' *"Hanging Garden", "Guernica: A Journal of Writing & Art" (with audio) *"Observatory", "Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature" *''Here Be Monsters'' (The University of Georgia Press, 2010)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheney, Colin American male poets Poets from Boston 1978 births Brown University alumni Living people 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers