Nancy Eimers

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

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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, Dunes Review.^[3]

She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[4]

Awards

1987 Nation “Discovery” Award^[5]
1989, 1996 Two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships
1997 Verna Emery Prize, for No Moon
1998 Whiting Award

Works

"AFTERLIVES"; "SEPTEMBER RAIN", Bucknell
A Grammar to Waking. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-88748-447-6.
No Moon. Purdue University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-1-55753-099-8.
Destroying Angel. Wesleyan/University Press of New England. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8195-2194-1. Nancy Eimers.
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 978-0-88146-047-6.
Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). "Morbid". The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11963-4.
Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2001). Poets of the New Century. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-177-9.
Michael Collier; Stanley Plumly, eds. (1999). "Arlington Street". The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1.
Adrienne Rich; David Lehman, eds. (1996). Best American Poetry 1996. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-81455-1.