FGE - July 2012
Keetje Kuipers is a native of the Northwest. She earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon, and was most recently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Keetje is the 2011-2012 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. In 2007 Keetje was the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She used the residency to complete work on her book Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published in 2010 by BOA Editions.
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Elizabeth Bradfield grew up in Tacoma, Washington and has since claimed Alaska and Cape Cod as home.
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Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. She grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village
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Cynthia Marie Hoffman's first book, Sightseer, won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry and was published by Persea Books
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Jennifer Elise Foerster received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts
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Gibson Fay-LeBlanc's first collection of poems, Death of a Ventriloquist, was chosen by Lisa Russ Spaar for the Vassar Miller Prize
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Holly Virginia Clark has been a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize,
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Janice N. Harrington writes poetry and children's books. She grew up in Alabama and Nebraska,
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Metta Sáma is author of Nocturne Trio (YesYes Bøøks, 2012) and South of Here
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