Gillian Conoley

Gillian Conoley is an American poet and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Books

* Lovers in the Used World - January 2001, Carnegie Mellon University Press.
* Beckon.
* Tall Stranger.
* Some Gangster Pain.
* Profane Halo - 2005, Verse Press.
* Fatherless Afternoon - Editions Ferris.

Her work has been anthologized widely, most recently in Best American Poetry and The Body Electric.

Career

Conoley is associate professor and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University. She is also the founder and editor of Volt. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of Denver, Vermont College and Tulane University.

Personal life

Born in Taylor, Texas, she now makes her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Journal Publications

Conoley's poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review, Ironwood, Zyzzyva, Ploughshares, the Denver Quarterly, the Missouri Review and other publications.

Awards and Honors

Her honors and awards include four Pushcart Prize publications, the Academy of American Poets Award, a fellowship from the Washington State Arts Commission, residency at the MacDowell Colony and a grant from Northwest Institute for Advanced Study.

Anthologies

Conoley's work has been anthologized in "Best American Poetry," "Poets of the Northwest," "The Carnegie-Mellon Anthology of Poetry," "American Poetry Annual" and "Jazz Poetry Anthology."