Nuala Archer (born 1955) is an American

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of Irish descent, author of five books, most recently, ''Inch Aeons'' (Les Figues Press, 2006). Her first book, ''Whale on the Line,'' won the

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in 1980. She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including ''The American Poetry Review,'' ''Mid-American Review'' and ''Seneca Review.'' Until 2011, she was an associate professor in the English Department at

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. During the 1990s, she briefly served as the director of

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. She has taught literature and edited the ''Midland Review'' at

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. She has also taught at

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and

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. She has educated at

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(see

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and the

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. Born in

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to Irish parents, her family moved to

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, Costa Rica,

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Published works

* ''Inch Aeons'' (Les Figues Press, 2006) * ''From a Mobile Home'' (Salmon Poetry, 1995) * ''The Hour of Pan/Amá'' (Salmon Publishing, 1992) * ''Two Women, Two Shores:Poems'' by

Medbh McGuckian Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster ...

and Nuala Archer (New Poets Series/Salmon Press, 1989) * ''Whale on the Line'' (Gallery Books, 1981)

References

External links

Review: ''The Compulsive Reader'' > Review by Bob Williams of ''Inch Aeons'' by Nuala M. Archer

Les Figues Press > Nuala Archer Author Page

Salmon Poetry > Nuala Archer Author Page
1955 births American women poets Cleveland State University faculty Living people Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Alumni of Trinity College Dublin American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-poet-1950s-stub