Gillian Conoley (born March 29, 1955) is an American poet. Conoley serves as a professor and poet-in-residence at

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. Conoley is author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has been anthologized in Norton’s ''American Hybrid'', Counterpath’s ''Postmodern Lyricisms'', Mondadori’s ''Nuova Poesia Americana'' (Italian), and ''Best American Poetry''. Conoley's poetry has appeared in ''Conjunctions'', ''New American Writing'', ''

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'', ''The Canary'', ''A Public Space'', ''Carnet de Rouge'', ''Jacket'', ''Or'', ''Fence'', ''Verse'', ''Ironwood'', ''jubilat'', ''

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'' and other publications. She is the recipient of the Jerome J. Seshtack Poetry Prize from ''The American Poetry Review'', and several

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s. She is the founder and editor of ''Volt''. She is a former visiting poet at the

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at the

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and at the

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, and

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Career

Conoley holds a BA in Journalism from

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and an MFA from the Program for Poets and Writers at the

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. Her most recent collection, ''A Little More Red Sun on the Human'', was published in 2020. Apart from her poetry collections, Conoley has also published her poems in

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s, including ''Woman Speaking Inside Film Noir'' (1984), ''Fatherless Afternoon'' (2005) and ''An Oh A Sky A Fabric An Undertow'' (2010). Three of Conoley's poems were included in the second edition (2013) of '' Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology''. In September 2014 Conoley published''Thousand Times Broken: Three Books'', her translation of three never-before-translated texts by the French poet

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, composed between 1956 and 1959.

Awards and honors

Conoley has four

publications and has won a Fund for Poetry Award and the

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Award. She is a former fellow at the Washington State Arts Commission and a resident at the

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Publications

*''Some Gangster Pain'' (Carnegie Mellon, 1987), winner of the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer Award *''Tall Stranger'' (Carnegie Mellon, 1991), a finalist for the

National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Wave Books Wave Books (established 2005) is an American independent press focusing on the publication of poetry, with a focus on innovative, contemporary poetry and poetry in translation. This independent publisher has published books by CAConrad, Don Mee ...

, 2005) *''The Plot Genie'' ( Omnidawn, 2009) *''Peace'' ( Omnidawn, 2014) *''Thousand Times Broken, Three Books'' (

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, 2014)

Personal life

Conoley lives in Corte Madera, California. She is married to the crime novelist Domenic Stansberry.Vicki Larson (April 4, 2014)
"Poet Gillian Conoley questions war, peace in new book"
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References

External links

''Thousand Times Broken, Three Books'' by Henri Michaux, translated by Gillian Conoley
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