Joanie V. Mackowski (born 1963, in

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) is an American

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Life

Mackowski grew up in

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. She graduated from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...

, the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

, and was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. She earned a Ph.D. at

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

. Mackowski taught at

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...

. She was an editor at ''Reconfigurations''. Her work has appeared in ''Prairie schooner'', ''Antioch Review'', and ''Best American Poetry 2007''.

Awards

* 2008

Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style.""PSA Annual Awar ...

* 2003

Kate Tufts Discovery Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...

* 2000 Award Series in Poetry

Associated Writing Programs The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit literary organization that provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 125 writers' c ...

Work

"Bad Annunciation", ''Slate'', Sept. 4, 2007
* * * * * * ''View from a Temporary Window'', University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010,

Anthologies

* * David Wagoner, David Lehman, eds. "Boarding: Hemaris thysbe, ''The Best American Poetry 2009'', Simon & Schuster, * David Yezzi, ed. Five Poems. ''The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets'', OUP/Swallow Press, 2009,

Reviews

Richard Kenney wrote:

References

External links

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