Arda Collins
Arda Collins | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Denver |
| Genre | Poetry |
Arda Collins is an Armenian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
Life[edit]
Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.[1][2]
Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.[3]
She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.[4][5] She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.[6]
Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker,[7] jubilat,[8] The American Poetry Review,[9] A Public Space[10] and Gutcult.
Awards[edit]
- 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
- 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences' (AAAS) Poetry Prize
- 2008 May Sarton Prize [11]
Works[edit]
- Star Lake, New York : The Song Cave, 2022. ISBN 9781737277545
- It is daylight, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780300148879, OCLC 637375983
References[edit]
- ^ It Is Daylight, Arda Collins, Yale University Press, Mar 23, 2009
- ^ "Award-winning UI poets Collins and Thirkield read April 14". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
- ^ "It Is Daylight - Collins, Arda; Glück, Louise - Yale University Press". Retrieved 2009-05-02.
- ^ Archives Calendar, Reading Between A&B
- ^ "Q & A with Arda Collins".
- ^ "2019 Juniper Literary Festival : MFA for Poets & Writers : UMass Amherst".
- ^ "Search". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Number 30 - jubilat".
- ^ Collins, Arda (2004). "Spring". The American Poetry Review.
- ^ "It is Daylight : Magazine : A Public Space".
- ^ "Recipients of the May Sarton Prize". www.amacad.org. Archived from the original on 2010-09-17.
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