Talvikki Ansel is an American poet. She was chosen as a winner by

James Dickey James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey is best known for his no ...

, for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1996.

Life

She graduated from

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. ...

in 1985, and

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana University and, with ...

. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies ''New Young American Poets'' (Southern Illinois University, 2000) and ''The Pushcart Prize XXVI'', and in magazines such as ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Journal'', ''Poetry'', ''Prairie Schooner'', and ''Shenandoah''. She teaches at the

University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Island ...

Awards

* Lannan Foundation resident, Marfa, Spring 2006. *

Stegner Fellowship The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ...

in Creative Writing, from Stanford University *Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship.

Works

''World'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', July/August 2001

''Seed Savers'', Poetry Magazine, January/February 2007

* ''Tree List'', Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003 * ''Or Stay Again'', Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003 * ''Blue Collection'', Prairie Schooner, Mar 22, 2003

Books

* ''My Shining Archipelago'', Yale University Press, 1997. , * ''Jetty'' Lincoln, Neb.: Zoo Press, 2003. ,

Reviews

With admirable economy, the title ''Jetty'' announces two significant features of Talvikki Ansel's second book: the liminal vantage-point of the narrators of these poems and the curious ways in which the human world intersects with the natural.

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