David Bottoms

Poet, Fiction Writer

Atlanta, GA
Georgia US

Author's Bio

David Bottoms was born in Canton, Georgia in 1949. He earned an MA from the University of West Georgia and a PhD from Florida State University. Bottoms’s collections of poetry include Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch (2018), We Almost Disappear (2011), Waltzing through the Endtime (2004), Vagrant Grace (1999), Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems (1995), and In a U-Haul North of Damascus (1982). He has won many awards and honors for his work, including the Levinson Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, an Ingram-Merrill Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Bottoms served as poet laureate of Georgia from 2000 to 2012. Bottoms died at the age of seventy-three on March 10, 2023.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Journals: ,
Atlantic Monthly
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Harper's
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Paris Review
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The New Yorker

Poetry

Books:
Vagrant Grace (Copper Canyon Press, 1999)
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Armored Hearts: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1995)
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Easter Weekend (Houghton Mifflin, 1990)
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Under the Vulture-Tree (Morrow, 1987)
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In a U-Haul North of Damascus (Morrow, 1983)
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Last update: Apr 10, 2023