Nancy Eimers

Nancy Eimers (born 1954 Chicago) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan University.^[1] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work has appeared in Paris Review,^[2] TriQuarterly, Field, The Nation, Antioch Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest.

She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[3]

Awards

• 1987 Nation “Discovery” Award^[4]
• two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships
• 1998 Whiting Writers' Award
• 1997 Verna Emery Prize, for No Moon

Works

• "AFTERLIVES"; "SEPTEMBER RAIN", Bucknell

• A Grammar to Waking. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780887484476. 
• No Moon. Purdue University Press. 1997. ISBN 9781557530998. 
• Destroying Angel. Wesleyan/University Press of New England. 1991. ISBN 9780819521941. http://books.google.com/books?id=o8XktMKfGYMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nancy+Eimers#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Stars too small to receive us: poems. University of Houston. 1988. 
• Woman with a mango. Indiana University. 1979. 

Anthologies

• William J. Walsh, ed (2006). "A Grammar of Waking". Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780881460476. http://books.google.com/books?id=iiG_MOtag50C&pg=PA115&lpg=114#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Susan Aizenberg, Erin Belieu, Jeremy Countryman, ed (2001). "Morbid". The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231119634. http://books.google.com/books?id=sCjZY4dDuSAC&pg=PA91&dq=Nancy+Eimers+tide&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, ed (2001). Poets of the New Century. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 9781567921779. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qj55WTdjly8C&pg=PR7&dq=Nancy+Eimers&lr=#v=onepage&q=Nancy%20Eimers&f=false. 
• Michael Collier, Stanley Plumly, ed (1999). "Arlington Street". The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. UPNE. ISBN 9780874519501. http://books.google.com/books?id=5a5_Ii2R3qUC&pg=PA70&dq=Nancy+Eimers#v=onepage&q=Nancy%20Eimers&f=false. 
• Adrienne Rich, David Lehman, ed (1996). Best American Poetry 1996. Scribner. ISBN 9780684814551. 

References

1. ^ http://www.wmich.edu/english/facultyandstaff/profiles/eimers
2. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/127
3. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/nancy_eimers
4. ^ http://www.since1865.com/archive/detail/14197730

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