Averill Curdy

Averill Ann Curdy is an American poet and academic.

Life

She received her MFA from the University of Houston and her PhD from the University of Missouri.

Curdy worked as an arts administrator and as a marketing manager and technical editor.

Her work has appeared in Poetry,[1] The Paris Review,[2] Raritan and the Kenyon Review.[3]

She lives in Chicago and is a professor at Northwestern University.[4]

Awards

Works

  • "Anatomical Angel", Poetry, (June 2006)
  • "To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)", Poetry, (June 2009)
  • "Hardware", Poetry, (June 2009)
  • "Probation", Poetry, (April 2005)
  • "Femme Fatale", Slate, June 1, 2004
  • First and last things: poems. University of Houston. 1999.
  • From the lost correspondence: poems. University of Missouri-Columbia. 2004.
  • Winged. New Michigan Press. 2005.
  • Song & Error. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013.

Editor

  • Lynne McMahon; Averill Curdy, eds. (2006). he Longman anthology of poetry. Pearson/Longman. ISBN 978-0-321-11725-0.

References

  1. ^ "Averill Curdy | Poetry Foundation". 5 May 2023.
  2. ^ "The Paris Review - Fall 2002". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  3. ^ "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  4. ^ "People: Faculty, English Department, WCAS, Northwestern University". www.english.northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on 2003-12-14.
  5. ^ "Lannan Foundation - Averill Curdy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2009-08-29.