Kelli Russell Agodon (born in
Seattle
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) is an American
poet
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, writer, and editor. She is the cofounder of ''Two Sylvias Press'' and she serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at
Pacific Lutheran University.
Life
She was raised in Seattle, and graduated from the
University of Washington
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and
Pacific Lutheran University Rainier Writing Workshop with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in
Washington state
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. Her works have appeared in the ''Atlantic Monthly,'' ''American Poetry Review'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''North American Review'', ''Image'', ''5 a.m'', ''Meridian'', ''Calyx''.,
poets.org, and ''
The Los Angeles Review
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''.
She lives in the Northwest.
She was the Editor-in-Chief of the ''
Crab Creek Review
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'' from 2009 until 2014. She is the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. She is the Co-Director of the Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women.
Recognition
Her most recent book, ''Hourglass Museum'' (White Pine Press, 2014), was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize in Poetry.
Awards
* 2018 Poetry Society of America Lyric Poetry Prize
*2015 Centrum Residency Recipient
*2009 Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient
*2005 James Hearst Poetry Prize 3rd place
*2003 Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient
Works
"Hunger," Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day"Braided Between the Broken'',''" ''New England Review''"How Killer Blue Irises Spread'',''" ''The Atlantic''"Letting Gatsby Out at 11 p.m.'',''" ''Body Literature''
* ttp://www.wombpoetry.com/summer%20issue/agodon.html "Dord"; "Unintentionally Typing the Word Life Instead of Lips"; "?", ''Womb Poetry''br>"Sometimes I still dream about their pink bodies", ''Poetry Southeast''
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*''Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room'', White Pine Press, 2010,
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References
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Two Sylvias Press
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1969 births
Living people
Poets from Washington (state)
American women poets
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Pacific Lutheran University alumni
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers