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Ann Victoria "A V." Christie (February 2, 1963 – April 7, 2016) was an American poet.
A. V. Christie | |
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| Born | Ann Victoria Christie February 2, 1963 Redwood City, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 7, 2016 (aged 53) West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Education | Vassar College University of Maryland, Baltimore (MFA) |
Life
editAnn Victoria Christie was born in Redwood City, California. She was raised in California's San Francisco Bay area as well as in Montana, and British Columbia. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland. She was a visiting writer and writer-in-residence at colleges along the Pennsylvania Main Line and regionally, including Villanova and La Salle universities; Bryn Mawr College; Goucher College in Baltimore; the University of Maryland, College Park; and Penn State Abington.[citation needed]
Her first poetry collection, Nine Skies, won the 1996 National Poetry Series prize. The poet Henri Cole described it as "hard-bitten, luxuriant and true," and the Philadelphia-area poet Eleanor Wilner called it "diamond-faceted, elliptical." W.S. DiPiero said of her 2014 collection The Wonders that "her poems invoke and respect strangeness and make strangeness feel near."[1]
Her poems, reviews, and interviews appeared in AGNI,[2] American Poetry Review, Poetry, Excerpt, Iowa Review, Commonweal, The Journal, Ploughshares,[3] and Prairie Schooner.[4]
Her collection The Housing (2004) was co-winner of the Robert McGovern Publication Prize. The Wonders (2014), a chapbook-length poem and Editor's Selection, was published by Seven Kitchens Press. Her chapbook And I Began to Entertain Doubts was published in May 2016 by Folded Word Press.[5]
Death
editChristie died of breast cancer in West Chester, Pennsylvania, aged 53.[1]
Awards
edit- 1997 National Poetry Series, for Nine Skies
- 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize co-winner, for The Housing
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
- Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowship
- Ludwig Vogelstein Fellowship
Works
edit- Nine Skies. University of Illinois Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-252-06644-3.
- The Housing. Ashland Poetry Press. 2004.
- The Wonders. Seven Kitchens Press. 2014.
- And I Began to Entertain Doubts. Folded Word Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-610-19601-7.
Anthologies
edit- Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The New American Poets. University Press of New England.
References
edit- ^ a b "A.V. Christie, award-winning local poet, dies", philly.com, April 16, 2016; accessed June 21, 2017.
- ^ AGNI Online: Author A V Christie, bu.edu; accessed June 21, 2017.
- ^ Author Details, pshares.org; accessed June 21, 2017.
- ^ Project MUSE - Prairie Schooner - A Chemistry, and: Before Frost, jhu.edu; accessed June 21, 2017.
- ^ Graustein, J. S. (2016-04-22). "And I Began to Entertain Doubts". Folded Word Chapbooks. Retrieved 2019-03-16.