Laurel Trivelpiece (1926,

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– 1998) was an American

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and novelist.

Life

Trivelpiece worked in her youth as fruit-picker and later, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English Literature, as an editor and copy-writer for Macys and other department stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lived in

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. Trivelpiece authored two poetry collections, four young adult novels, one adult novel, and prize-winning fiction and plays. Her second poetry collection, ''Blue Holes'' (

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, 1987), won the

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, and one of her poems was included in Best American Poetry 1995. Her poems also appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Poetry,'' ''The Massachusetts Review,'' ''The American Poetry Review,'' and ''The Malahat Review.'' Her short story ''Gentle Constancy'' (Denver Quarterly, Fall) was acknowledged in the ''Distinctive Short Stories, 1970'' list in ''The Best American Short Stories, 1971.'' Houghton Mifflin Co. .

Awards

* 1987

Published works

Poetry Collections * * Young Adult Novels * * * * Adult Novels * Anthology Publications *

References

External links

Alice James Books > Poems by Laurel Trivelpiece

Review: ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' > Issues > Autumn 1978 > pp.127-148 > Recent Books > ''Legless in Flight'' by Laurel Trivelpiece
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