BOA Authors & Poets
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Born in 1938 in Lisbon, Maine, A. Poulin,
Jr. was the author of six books of poetry, a major translator
of both the French
and German poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, the editor of...
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Chicago resident Adam McOmber is the
author of This New and Poisonous Air,
his debut collection of short stories. The Assistant Director of Creative Nonfiction
at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches both creative nonfiction...
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The pen-name Adonis, which Ali Ahmad Said began to use in the early 60s, refers to the mythological figures of the Mediterranean which interested Arab poets of the Tammuzi school in that period, the dying gods we know from the archaic mythologies...
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Adrie Kusserow was born in Underhill Center, Vermont, in 1966. While a freshman at Amherst College, she traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal, and northern India to study Tibetan Buddhism. She went on to study anthropology and psychology at Harvard...
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Born in Moca, Santo Domingo in 1918, Aida Cartagena Portalatín is most widely known for her poetry, focusing on man's limitations in the struggle for liberty. She received her doctorate from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, and...
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Aimee
Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work
Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize.
Parkison writes and publishes fiction and poetry. She has an MFA
from Cornell University and is an...
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Alan Michael Parker is the author of five collections of poems: Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and, most recently, Elephants & Butterflies. He also published the novel Cry Uncle. Parker is...
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From his first book of poems, Chessboards of Hours, published in 1995 when he was 22 years old, Aleš Šteger has been considered one of Slovenia’s most promising poets. That promise has been unleashed over the course of a...
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Alpay Ulku was born in Turkey, grew up in Canada, finished
high school in England, and has lived throughout the United
States. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop
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Angela Hernández Núñez was born in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic in 1954, and began writing as a teenager. Although she graduated with honors in chemical engineering from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, she has...
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Born in San Francisco, Anne Germanacos has lived between Greece and San Francisco for thirty years. Her stories are just as strange and tragic as the Greek myths they riff on. Using a spare, image-laden prose style, Germanacos focuses on...
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Born in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec, Anne Hebert
is an important figure in world literature. Her novels --Kamouraska, Les
Enfants du sabbat, Heloise and Les Fous
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Anthony
Tognazzini's work has appeared in Swink, Sentence, Quarterly
West, Mississippi Review, The Hat, Denver Quarterly, Hayden's
Ferry Review, Quick Fiction, and the Alaska Quarterly...
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Born in Sheffield, Alabama and raised on Long Island, Anthony Piccione is the author of four collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Ltd.: The Guests at the Gate (2002), For the Kingdom (1995), Seeing It Was So (1986), and Anchor Dragging (1978,...
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In 2011, Aracelis Girmay was presented with the Isabella Gardner Award for Kingdom Animalia. The prize is awarded biennially to a poet in midcareer with a new book of exceptional merit. Girmay is also the author of the collage-based picture book...
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Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls (Viking Penguin, 2006) and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects (Penguin Books, 2004), as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant (Dalkey...
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Barbara Jane Reyes' Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010) was recently noted as a finalist for the California Book Award. Reyes is also the author of two previous poetry collections: Gravities of Center and Poeta en San Francisco, which was awarded...
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Barry Wallenstein is the author of five collections, including Beast is a Wolf With Brown Fire (BOA Editions, 1977). His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals in the U.S. and abroad, and in recent years he has emerged on a global level,...
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Barton
Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three different
categories: for poetry with The Book of
Names: New and Selected Poems (BOA); for fiction with My Father’s War and Other Stories; and for creative...
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