Jessica Fisher (born March 12, 1976 in Claremont, California) is an American

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, translator, and critic. In 2012, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky

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Fellowship in literature by the

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. Her first book, ''Frail-Craft'', won the 2006

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and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her second book, ''Inmost'', won the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize.

Life

Her poems and translations appear in such journals as

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, At Length,

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, the

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, and

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. With Robert Hass, she co-edited ''The Addison Street Anthology''; this book serves as a guide to the Berkeley Poetry Walk, which was named a National Poetry Landmark by the Academy of American Poets. She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from

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and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the

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, where she was the Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics from 2009-2011. She is the daughter of

Ann Fisher-Wirth Ann Fisher-Wirth (born 25 January 1947) is an American poet and scholar, based at the University of Mississippi. She has won several teaching awards, including Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year (2006), Humanities Teacher of the Year (2 ...

Awards

*The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, awarded by the American Academy in Arts and Letters, 2012-2013 *Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, 2011 *Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetry and Poetics, University of California at Berkeley, 2009-2011 *Northern California Book Award, finalist, 2008 *Yale Younger Poets Prize, 2006 *Djerassi Residency Fellowship, 2005 *Eisner Award in Poetry, 2000 and 2002

Books

Poetry

* *

Edited

Translations

*The Paris Review,
The Swallow's Testicles
" a translation of a poem by Hans Arp *The New York Review of Books
"Forget"
a translation of a poem by Czeslaw Milosz

Reviews

The New Yorker
Ligaya Mishan

* ttps://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.4/microreviews.php Boston Review Amelia Klein
Kenyon Review
Meghan O'Rourke
The Missouri Review
Chad Parmenter
The Rumpus
T Fleischmann

External links

Fisher's page at Nightboat Books

References

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