Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American
poet
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.
Life
She graduated from
Bates College in 1970 and from the
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Wri ...
with a
Master of Fine Arts
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is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
in 1973.
She teaches at
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...
.
Her work has appeared in the ''New Yorker'', ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Boston Book Review'', ''Orion'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Poetry'', ''The Journal'', ''New Republic'', ''American Scholar''.
Her papers are held at Bates College.
Awards
* 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize
* 1985
Yale Younger Poet award
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Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
* Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship
* Ohio Arts Council grant
Works
"Dingle Way", ''Perihelion''*
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Anthologies
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* ''The Extraordinary Tide''
* ''American Voices''
* ''Poetry for a Small Planet''
* ''Cape Discovery''
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Pamela
1948 births
Living people
American women poets
Bates College alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Oberlin College faculty
Yale Younger Poets winners
21st-century American women academics
21st-century American women writers