Colleen J. McElroy

Colleen J. McElroy (born 1935 St. Louis, Missouri) is an American poet, short story writer, editor, memoirist.^[1][2]

Life

She graduated from Kansas State University (1958) and from the University of Washington with a Ph.D. (1973).^[3] She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle, Washington.^[4]

Awards

• 1985 American Book Award
• two Fulbright Creative Writing Fellowship, which took her to Yugoslavia in 1988.
• two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
• DuPont Fellowship
• Rockefeller Fellowship.

Works

Poetry

• "Sidewalk Games", Poetry Foundation
• "Webs and Weeds", Poetry Foundation
• "Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide", Poetry Foundation
• "Lothar’s Wife", Poetry Foundation

• Sleeping with the moon: poems. University of Illinois Press. 2007. ISBN 9780252074769. http://books.google.com/books?id=geXa15FLa_IC&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Colleen+inauthor:J+inauthor:McElroy&ei=rVjnSvOMO47WNciE7e4L#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Travelling music. Story Line Press. 1998. ISBN 9781885266651. 
• What madness brought me here: new and selected poems, 1968-1988. Wesleyan University Press. 1990. ISBN 9780819511881. http://books.google.com/books?id=Fn4euLYpn_IC&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Colleen+inauthor:J+inauthor:McElroy&ei=rVjnSvOMO47WNciE7e4L#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Bone Flames: Poems. University Press of New England. 1987. ISBN 9780819551726. 
• Queen of the Ebony Isles. Wesleyan University Press. 1984. ISBN 9780819561015. http://books.google.com/books?id=qFg_kYAGWoQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Colleen+inauthor:J+inauthor:McElroy&ei=rVjnSvOMO47WNciE7e4L#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Music from home: selected poems. Southern Illinois University Press. 1976. ISBN 9780809307746. 

Memoirs

• A Long Way from St. Louie. Coffee House Press. 1997. ISBN 9781566890595.  (travel memoirs)
• Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar. University of Washington Press. 2001. ISBN 9780295981154. http://books.google.com/books?id=Uj2sq_UKFNUC&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Colleen+inauthor:J+inauthor:McElroy&ei=rVjnSvOMO47WNciE7e4L#v=onepage&q=&f=false.  (field notes and translations of Malagasy poems and stories).

Short Stories

• Driving under the cardboard pines and other stories. Creative Arts Book Co.. 1990. ISBN 9780887390739. 
• Jesus and Fat Tuesday: and other short stories. Creative Arts Book Co.. 1987. ISBN 9780887390234. 

Anthologies

• Robert Hass, David Lehman, ed (August 21, 2001). Best American Poetry 2001. Scribner. ISBN 9780743203845. 
• Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed (October 1, 2005). Oxford Anthology of African American Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195125634. 

Ploughshares^{[dead link]}

• "While Poets Are Watching". Ploughshares. Spring 1981. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1113. 
• "Caution: This Woman Brakes for Memories". Ploughshares. Spring 1993. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3525. 
• "Paris Subway Tango". Ploughshares. Spring 1993. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3524. 
• "Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy". Ploughshares. Winter 2007-08. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8797. 
• "Furlough". Ploughshares. Winter 2007-08. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8764. 

References

1. ^ Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Yolanda Williams Page
2. ^ http://college.up.edu/english/default.aspx?cid=2098&pid=638
3. ^ http://www.upne.com/0-8195-2186-8.html
4. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/colleen_j_mcelroy_1

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Name	Macelroy, Colleen J.
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