Deanne Lundin 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 ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, and

short story writer A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

Life

She was born and raised in Florida and has lived in Oklahoma, Boston, California, England and Wales. She graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, and

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1997 with an MFA. She graduated from the

Eastman School of Music The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman. It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M ...

, with a master's in music. She taught at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

and the

. Her work has appeared in ''Painted Bride Quarterly'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Prairie Schooner''. She lives in

Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Washtenaw County. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor ...

Awards

* 2007

Dana Award The Dana Award is a literary award presented in short fiction, poetry and novels. It was founded in 1996 by literature professor and poet Mary Elizabeth Parker with the financial backing of Michael Dana.''Poets & Writers'', September/October 200 ...

* Glimmertrain Short Fiction Award finalist, for "What a Man Can Carry" * 1997 Hopwood Award

Works

"Orange Bang"; "The Ginseng Hunter Thinks About Oranges in October ", ''Michigan Today''"Empire", ''Opium Magazine''
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Criticism

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American women short story writers American short story writers Harvard University alumni University of Michigan alumni Eastman School of Music alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Michigan faculty Living people American women poets Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-story-writer-stub