Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American writer has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, CantoMundo, the Deming Foundation. Residencies at Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center and Jentel.
Her work has appeared in over 50 literary publications including Nimrod, Tampa Review and New Letters.
She lives in Topanga, CA and telecommutes as a freelance technical writer. Recent international residencies include Fundación Valparaíso (Mojacar, Spain), Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal and Milkwood (Cesky Krumlov)
She is the author of three books: Woman on a Shaky Bridge (a Finishing Line Press chapbook), Injuring Eternity (Mischievous Muse 2010) and Only More So (forthcoming from Salmon Press)
Publications and Prizes
Books:
Only More So (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2012)
Chapbooks:
Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
Anthologies:
Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press, 1999)
Journals:
Laurel Review, New Letters, Nimrod, Seattle Review, Sycamore Review, Tampa Review, Wallace Stevens Journal
Prizes:
Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry, California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, Forby Fellowship at the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University, CantoMundo.