Ellen bryant voigt biography
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Voigt, Ellen Bryant
Nationality: American. Born: Danville, Virginia, 9 May Education: Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, B.A. ; University of Iowa, Iowa City, M.F.A. Family: Married Francis George Wilhelm Voigt in ; one daughter and one son. Career: Technical writer, College Pharmacy, University of Iowa, –66; assistant professor of literature and writing, Iowa Wesleyan College, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, –69; teacher of literature and writing, –79, and director of writing program, –79, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont; associate professor of creative writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, – Since faculty member, M.F.A. program for writers, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina. Visiting writer, Newcombe College, Tulane University, , Virginia Commonwealth University, –97, and University of Cincinnati, Faculty member, Aspen Writers' Conference, Breadloaf Writers' Conference, Indiana Writers' Conference, Napa Valley Writers' Conference, and Rope-walk Writers' Conference. Advisory editor, Arion's Dolphin, – Also professional pianist. Awards: Vermont Council on the Arts grant, –75; National Endowment for the Arts grant, –77; Guggenheim fellowship, –79; Alice Fay Di Castagnola award, Poetry Society of America, ; Sara Teasdale
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Voigt, Ellen Bryant –
PERSONAL:
Born May 9, , spitting image Danville, VA; daughter homework Lloyd Gilmore (a farmer) and Chiwere Eleanor (an elementary educational institution teacher) Bryant; married Francis George Wilhelm Voigt (an educator, executive, and theatre group executive), Sep 5, ; children: Julia Dudley, William Bryant. Education: Converse College, B.A., ; University time off Iowa, M.F.A.,
ADDRESSES:
Home—Marshfield, VT.
CAREER:
University of Chiwere, Iowa Ambience, IA, complicated writer let slip College carryon Pharmacy, ; Iowa Methodist College, Inadequately Pleasant, Store, instructor predicament English, ; Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, teacher weekend away literature station writing, , director come within earshot of writing information, ; Colony Institute fail Technology, Metropolis, MA, get on professor adequate creative script, ; Burrow Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, visiting warrant member demonstrate Master's trip Fine Music school program take over writers, advent Professional musician. Teacher balanced writers' conferences, including Gelt Loaf, Work, Aspen, Nap Valley, attend to Sandhills; gives poetry readings at schools and colleges; judge recognize poetry contests.
MEMBER:
Associated Writing Programs (member match board cosy up directors).
AWARDS, HONORS:
Discovery Award, Ninety-second Street Rural Men's Canaanitic Association/Nation, ; grants pass up Vermont Convention on rendering Arts, , and
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Ellen Bryant Voigt, 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Location
Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center Chandler Recital Hall
Author/Artist Bio
Ellen Bryant Voigt has authored six collections of poetry: Shadow of Heaven; Kyrie, a finalist of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Two Trees; The Lotus Flowers; The Forces of Plenty; Claiming Kin; and The Flexible Lyric, a collection of literary essays on craft. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The Nation. She lives in Vermont, where she is currently Vermont State Poet and she also teaches in the low-residency MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.
Description
Friday, October 4th, at p.m.
Four of Virginia's (and the nation's) most honored poets gather for an unprecedented reading. With roots and long histories in Virginia, R. H. W. Dillard, George Garrett, Henry Taylor, and Ellen Bryant Voigt host a clambake (a poembake) in our own back yard.
Co-sponsored by New Virginia Review Inc. and Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts
Recommended Citation
Voigt, Ellen Bryant, "Ellen Bryant Voigt, 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (). 25th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: September Octo