Anna Journey

Creative Writing Program
Department of English
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204
Phone: (713) 743-2255

Author's Bio

Anna Journey’s book of poetry, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia, 2009), was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. Her poems are published in a number of journals, including American Poetry Review, FIELD, and Kenyon Review, and her essays have appeared in Blackbird, Notes on Contemporary Literature, and Parnassus. She is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston. In 2006, Journey discovered the unpublished status of Sylvia Plath's early sonnet "Ennui" and the influence of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby on it.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (The University of Georgia Press, 2009)

Anthologies:

Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets’ University & College Prizes (Academy of American Poets, 2010), Best New Poets 2008 (Samovar Press, 2008), Best New Poets 2006 (Samovar Press, 2006)

Journals:

42opus, American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, Barn Owl Review, Blackbird, Columbia, Diner, Field, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, storySouth, Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, Waccamaw Journal

Prizes:

National Poetry Series, Judge: Thomas Lux; Sycamore Review Wabash Prize for Poetry, Judge: Tony Hoagland; Diner Poetry Contest, First Place, Judge: Betsy Sholl; Creative Writing Fellowship, Corporation of Yaddo; Work-study Scholarship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference; Inprint/Barthelme Fellowship in Poetry, University of Houston, Judge: Brenda Shaughnessy; University Presidential Fellowship, University of Houston; J.A. and Isabel Elkins Fellowship, Inprint, Inc; Graduate School Thesis Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University; Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets, Judge: Ron Smith

Personal Favorites

Favorite Authors:

Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Norman Dubie, Larry Levis, Charles Wright, Linda Bierds, Sarah Vap, Jack Gilbert, Sylvia Plath, Paul Celan, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Akhmatova, John Keats

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Listing last updated: December 3, 2009

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Born in:

Arlington, VA

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