Emily Hiestand (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.
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| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Education | Philadelphia College of Art Boston University |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (1990) |
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Life
editShe grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at Boston University, with George Starbuck.[1]
She was an editor at Orion magazine and the Atlantic Monthly.[2]
Her work appears in Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe Magazine, Bostonia, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New York Times, Orion, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Southeast Review, The Nation,[3] The New Yorker.[4][5]
Awards
edit- 1988 National Poetry Series, for Green the Witch Hazel Wood, selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Jorie Graham
- 1988 The Nation/ Discovery Prize
- 1990 Whiting Award
Works
editEssays
edit- "The Constant Gardener". The Atlantic. March 2007.
- "Real Places". The Atlantic. July–August 2001.
- The Very Rich Hours: Travels in Orkney, Belize, the Everglades and Greece. Beacon Press. 1993. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-8070-7117-5.
Emily Hiestand poet.
- Angela the Upside Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels. Beacon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8070-7128-1.
Poetry
edit- Green the Witch Hazel Wood. Graywolf Press. 1989. ISBN 1-55597-120-2.
Anthologies
edit- Robert Finch; John Elder, eds. (2002). "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah". Nature writing: the tradition in English. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 959. ISBN 978-0-393-04966-4.
Emily Hiestand poet.
- Jorie Graham; David Lehman, eds. (1990). The best American poetry, 1990. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19187-4.
- Jim Elledge; Susan Swartwout, eds. (1999). Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33434-3.
Reviews
editEmily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar.[6]
References
edit- ^ "BU Bridge Feature Article".
- ^ "Poetry Reading by Emily Hiestand | College of the Holy Cross". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
- ^ "The Nation Digital Archive 1865-2006". Archived from the original on 2006-07-03.
- ^ "Travel Slides". The New Yorker. 14 August 1995.
- ^ "Emily Hiestand". 25 May 1994.
- ^ Leslie Chess Feller (April 18, 1999). "Books in Brief". The New York Times.