Grace Bauer

Grace Bauer is an American poet. She lives in Nebraska, grew up in Pennsylvania and has also lived in New Orleans, Montana, Virginia and Massachusetts.[1]

Early life and education

Bauer received her BA in journalism from Temple University. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

Career

She has taught at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a reader for Prairie Schooner.[1] Bauer was also the recipient of the Sorenson Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities.[2]

Awards

While at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bauer won the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her other awards include an Individual Artist's Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a Diggs Teaching Scholar Award and Women's Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, the Irene Leache Poetry Prize, a Nebraska Arts Council Award, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She also won the 1999 Snail's Pace Press Chapbook Competition.[3][1] In 2015, she was the recipient of the Society of Midland Authors' Award for Poetry for her book Nowhere All at Once.[4]

Books

Other publications

Bauer has been published in DoubleTake, Poetry, South Dakota Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/bauer.htm Profile at Nebraska Center for Writers
  2. "Grace Bauer | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  3. "Grace Bauer : The Poetry Foundation". www.poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  4. "Society of Midland Authors Award Winners". www.midlandauthors.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  5. 1 2 http://english.unl.edu/faculty/profs/gbauer.html Website at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  6. Bauer, Grace (2014-03-04). Nowhere All at Once. Stephen F. Austin University Press. ISBN 9781622880416.
  7. Bauer, Grace (2016-04-14). The Women at the Well. Stephen F. Austin University Press. ISBN 9781622881147.
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