Sandra Meek

Poet

Mount Berry, GA
Georgia US
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Author's Bio

Sandra Meek is the author of six books of poems, Still (Persea Books, January 2020), An Ecology of Elsewhere (Persea, 2016), Road Scatter (Persea, 2012), Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize (Tupelo 2008), Burn (2005), and Nomadic Foundations (2002), as well as the editor of Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark 2007), which was awarded a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Best of the Net 2015, The Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, Ecotone, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review, among others. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, she has three times been awarded Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry and twice the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry—she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Manyana, Botswana, 1989-1991. She is co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, poetry editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum, and Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College. Visit her at www.sandrameek.com

 

 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Still (Persea Books, 2020)
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An Ecology of Elsewhere (Persea Books, 2016)
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Road Scatter (Persea Books/Karen & Michael Braziller, 2012)
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Biogeography (Tupelo Press, 2008)
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Burn (Elixir Press, 2005)
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Nomadic Foundations (Elixir Press, 2002)
Prizes won: 

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry; Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press); Georgia Author of the Year (three times); Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America; Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal; Peace Corps Writers Award for Poetry (twice); Editors' Choice for the James Wright Poetry Award, Mid-American Review.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
El Paso
Raised in: 
Fort Collins, CO
Colorado
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Last update: May 06, 2019