Nettie Farris

Poet

Louisville, KY
Kentucky US
Email: 
alice.abby.n@gmail.com
Website: 
nettie.edublogs.org/

Author's Bio

Nettie Farris is the author of COMMUNION (Accents Publishing, 2013), FAT CRAYONS (Finishing Line Press, 2015), the micro-chapbook STORY (Origami Poems Project, 2016), and THE WENDY BIRD POEMS (dancing girl press, 2016). She has received the Kudzu Poetry Prize and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences University of Louisville. She writes Book Reviews for MELANCHOLY HYPERBOLE, Reference Essays for Salem Press/Greyhouse Publishing, and the Spotlight on a Press feature for BLUE LYRA REVIEW, where she serves as Review Editor.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Alice in Wonderland Anthology (Silver Birch Press, 2015)
,
This Wretched Vessel: Selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2014 (Accents Publishing, 2015)
,
Her Limestone Bones: Selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2013 (Accents Publishing, 2014)
,
See How We Are: Selected Works from Lexington Poetry Month 2013 (Accents Publishing, 2014)
,
Bigger than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems (Accents Publishing, 2011)
Chapbooks:
The Wendy Bird Poems (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)
,
Fat Crayons (Finishing Line Press, 2015)
,
Communion (Accents Publishing, 2013)
Journals:
Appalachian Heritage
,
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
,
Ealain
,
Georgetown Review
,
Heartland Review
,
Inscape
,
Journal of Kentucky Studies
,
Limestone
,
Louisville Review
,
Maynard
,
Nonbinary Review
,
Paperbag
,
Pegasus
,
Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel
,
Postcard Poems and Prose
,
S/tick
,
Slow Trains
,
Subliminal Interiors
,
The Single Hound
,
Wisconsin Review
,
Zone 3
Prizes won: 

Kudzu Poetry Prize 2011

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Louisville
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Last update: Nov 23, 2016