Nancy Eimers (born 1954

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Life

She graduated from

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with an M.A., from the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

with an M.F.A., and from the

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the university in Texas with over 47,000 students. Its campus, which is primarily in s ...

with a Ph.D. She teaches at

Western Michigan University Western Michigan University (Western Michigan, Western or WMU) is a public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was initially established as Western State Normal School in 1903 by Governor Aaron T. Bliss for the training of teachers ...

. She is also a contributing editor at

The Alaska Quarterly Review ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' is a biannual literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage and continued unaffiliated in 2020.July 1, 2020 University of Alaska Anchorage ended its financi ...

. Her work has appeared in ''Paris Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Field'', ''The Nation'', ''Antioch Review'', ''North American Review'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ''

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''. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Awards

* 1987 Nation “Discovery” Awardhttp://www.since1865.com/archive/detail/14197730 * 1989, 1996 Two

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Creative Writing Fellowships * 1997 Verna Emery Prize, for ''No Moon'' * 1998 Whiting Award

Works

"AFTERLIVES"; "SEPTEMBER RAIN", ''Bucknell''
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Anthologies

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References

External links

Profile at The Whiting Foundation
1954 births Living people Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty American women poets American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-poet-1950s-stub