Chanda Feldman

Amaryllis Chanda Feldman (born 1976) is an American poet. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and chair of the creative writing program at Oberlin College,[1] where she has taught since 2017.[2] Feldman was born in Tennessee in 1976.[3][4] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago (1999),[5] as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Cornell University (2003).[1][3][6] She also held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010,[7] as well as a MacDowell Fellowship in 2009,[8] and National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2011.[9] Feldman has been noted in Callaloo as an example of Black people in poetry at American colleges and universities, alongside other Black poets.[10]

Her first collection, entitled Approaching the Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2018; the book contains four sections, with 22 poems total.[11] The collection received a positive review from Nan Cohen,[12] as well as a review from David M. Brunson.[13] A second collection, Glance, is in press from the same publisher as of 2024^[update].[3]

References

1. "Chanda Feldman". Oberlin College and Conservatory. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
2. "Chanda Feldman, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing". The Oberlin Review. October 12, 2018. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
3. "Chanda Feldman". Chanda Feldman. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
4. "Feldman, Chanda, 1976-". LC Linked Data Service. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
5. Peart, Andrew; Schachter, Lauren (Summer 2020). "Releases". The University of Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-06. Entries include an essay by Tyehimba Jess, AB'91, and poetry by Chanda Feldman, AB'99, and English PhD student Korey Williams, AM'14.
6. "Poet honored". Cornell Chronicle. November 2010. Retrieved 2024-04-06. Chanda Feldman, MFA '03, won a $25,000 creative writing fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
7. "Creative Writing Program: Former Stegner Fellows". Stanford University. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
8. "Chanda Feldman". MacDowell. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
9. "Chanda Feldman". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
10. Miller, Isaac Ginsberg (2017). "POETRY IS NOT A COUNTRY CLUB: Reflecting on "The Change"". Callaloo. 40 (3): 75–97. doi:10.1353/cal.2017.0121. JSTOR 26776378. For example, we might note the unprecedented number of Black poets holding posts at US colleges and universities, including ... Chanda Feldman at Oberlin College, ...
11. Feldman, Chanda (2018). Approaching the Fields: Poems. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6829-5. OCLC 1132665748.
12. Cohen, Nan (2020-07-11). "Approaching the Fields by Chanda Feldman, Reviewed by Nan Cohen". RHINO. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
13. "Capsule Reviews". David Brunson. Retrieved 2024-04-06.

External links

• Official website