Debora Greger
Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist. She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Debora Greger
- Name
- Debora Greger
- Born
- 1949
- Birthplace
- Walsenburg, Colorado, United States
- Field
- Poet
- Education
- University of Washington
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist. She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Debora Greger (born 1949) is a poet and writer, of American nationality. The poet was born in Walsenburg.
Debora Greger was educated at University of Iowa and University of Washington. The poet worked for Radcliffe College and University of Florida. Honours include Guggenheim Fellowship.
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She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida until retiring. She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art. Her poetry has been included in six volumes of The Best American Poetry and she has exhibited her artwork at several galleries and museums across the country. She also has a poem on Poetry 180 in number 42. Her work appeared in Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, and The New Criterion. She lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic, William Logan.
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• Name — Debora Greger • Born — 1949 • Birthplace — Walsenburg, Colorado, United States • Field — Poet • Workplaces — University of Florida • Education — University of Washington
Books
• 2017: In Darwin's Room. Penguin. • 2012: By Herself. Penguin. • 2008: Men, Women, and Ghosts. Penguin. • 2004: Western Art. Penguin. • 2001: God. Penguin. • 1996: Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters. Penguin. • 1994: Off-Season at the Edge of the World. University of Illinois Press. • 1990: The 1002nd Night. Princeton University Press. • 1985: Blank Country (limited edition chapbook). Meadow Press. • 1985: And. Princeton University Press. • 1980: Cartography (limited edition chapbook). Penumbra Press. • 1980: Movable Islands. Princeton University Press.
Awards
• 2012: Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry • 2004: John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College • 1996: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Finalist • 1991: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship • 1990: Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters • 1988: Brandeis University Poetry Award • 1987: Academy of American Poets' Peter I.B. Lavan Award • 1987: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation • 1985: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship • 1982: Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship • 1979: "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Prize • 1977: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fellowship • 1974: Grolier Prize in Poetry • Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
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- 1.Debora Greger. Department of English – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. March 11, 2018.
- 2.The Poetry of Bad Weather. Library of Congress.
- 3.Debora Greger. April 14, 2010.
- 4.Psyche and Eros in Florida by Debora Greger. July 23, 2021.
- 5.Eve in the fall by Debora Greger.
- 6.Debora Greger: The muse. Gainesville.com.
- 7.Greger, Debora. In Darwin's room. Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. 2017. 978-0-14-313131-1.
- 8.Greger, Debora. By herself. Penguin Books. 2012. 978-0-14-312239-5.
- 9.Greger, Debora. Men, women, and ghosts. Penguin Books. 2008. 978-0-14-311444-4.
- 10.Greger, Debora. Western art. Penguin Poets. 2004. 978-0-14-303421-6.
- 11.Greger, Debora. God. Penguin (Non-Classics). 5 June 2001. 978-0-14-042433-1.
- 12.Greger, Debora. Desert fathers, uranium daughters. Penguin Books. 1996. 978-0-14-058774-6.
- 13.Greger, Debora. Off-season at the edge of the world: poems. University of Illinois Press. 1994. 978-0-252-06380-0.
- 14.Greger, Debora. 1002nd Night. Princeton University Press. 2016. 978-0-691-63199-8.
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