Arianne Zwartjes

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

US
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Author's Bio

Arianne Zwartjes teaches for the Sierra Nevada College low-residency MFA program, and has also taught at the University of Arizona and the United World College. In her other life she has worked as an outdoor educator, a wilderness-medicine instructor, an EMT, and a carpenter. She is the author of the lyric nonfiction, medical-humanities book Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy, and the prose-poetry collection The Surfacing of Excess. Her writing won the 2011 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, was a Best American Essays Notable Essay, and has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Ninth Letter, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. Visit her and her writing at ariannezwartjes.com.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy (University of Iowa Press, 2012)
Chapbook:
(Stitched) A Surface Opens: Essays (New Michigan Press, 2008)

Poetry

Book:
The Surfacing of Excess (Eastern Washington University Press, 2010)
Chapbook:
Disem(body): A Tracing (Dancing Girl Press, Chicago, 2011)
Prizes won: 

Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, selected by John D’Agata, “This Suturing of Wounds or Words” (from Detailing Trauma)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Raised in: 
ME
Maine
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Last update: Jul 13, 2019