Geri Doran was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1966. Doran has attended

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(MFA 1995), and

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, where she held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in Eugene, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the

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Awards

*2012

Oregon Arts Commission The Oregon Arts Commission is a governor-appointed body of nine commissioners who allocate grants for artists based in the U.S. state of Oregon. It receives the bulk of its funding through the National Endowment for the Arts, the state, and the Or ...

Fellowship *2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship *2005

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an author's conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1926, it has been called by ''The New Yorker'' "the oldest and most p ...

Fellowship *2004 Academy of American Poets

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 outreach ...

*2001 Wallace

Stegner Fellowship The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ...

in Poetry from Stanford University *1999 Literary Arts, Inc. Poetry Fellowship

Works

*''Retrospective'' (The Atlantic, 2005) *''Resin'', poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2005) *''Sanderlings'', poems (Tupelo Press, 2011) *''The Good Field''

References

External links

Academy of American Poets Author Page

University of Oregon Faculty Page
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