Emily Hiestand (born 1947
Chicago) is an American writer and
poet.
Life
She grew up in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Oak ...
. She graduated from the
Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to
Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at
Boston University, with
George Starbuck.
She was an editor at ''Orion magazine'' and the ''Atlantic Monthly''.
Her work appears in ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Boston Globe Magazine'', ''Bostonia'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Hudson Review'', ''Michigan Quarterly Review'', ''New York Times'', ''Orion'', ''Partisan Review'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Southeast Review'', ''The Nation'', ''The New Yorker''.
Awards
* 1988
National Poetry Series, for ''Green the Witch Hazel Wood'', selected by U.S. Poet Laureate
Jorie Graham
* 1988 ''The Nation''/ Discovery Prize
* 1990
Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...
Works
Essays
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Poetry
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Anthologies
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Reviews
Emily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar.
References
External links
Author's websiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation
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1947 births
Living people
Boston University alumni
University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni
American women poets
21st-century American women