Leslie Ullman

Poet

Arroyo Seco, NM

New Mexico US

Email:

lullman@utep.edu

Website:

leslieullman.com

Author's Bio

I teach in the low-residency program at VCFA. Have published four poetry collections and a hybrid book of craft essays, poems, and writing exercises, Library of Small Happiness (2017). I live in Taos, NM. Recent collection Progress on the Subject of Immensity.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

The You That All Along Has Housed You: A Sequence (Nine Mile Press, 2019)

Library of Small Happiness (3: A Taos Press, 2017)

Progress on the Subject of Immensity (University of New Mexico Press, 2013)

Slow Work Through Sand (University of Iowa Press, 1998)

Dreams By No One's Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987)

Natural Histories (Yale University Press, 1979)

Journals:

Bloomsbury Review

Kenyon Review

Poetry

Prizes won:

Yale Series of Younger Poets Iowa Poetry Prize Two NEA Fellowships New Mexico/Arizona Book Award in poetry. Residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation and Hedgebrook.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel, Voluntary Servitude by Mark Wunderlich, Seam by Tarfia Faizullah, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble, Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Chicago

Raised in:

Winnetka, IL

Illinois

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Last update: May 03, 2019