Constance E. Studer

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Louisville, CO

Colorado US

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Author's Bio

Constance Studer worked as a registered nurse many years, primarily in ICU-CCU and as a hospital supervisor. She received a diploma from the Toledo Hospital School of Nursing, earned a BA in English Literature from Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois and a MA in English Literature/Creative Writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After retiring from nursing due to disability, she has devoted her time to reading and writing. She lived in the Netherlands for four years and has published translations of Dutch poetry. She has published two books: Prayer to a Purple God, Mellen Poetry Press, 1996, 2004, and Body Language: First Of All Do No Harm, (creative nonfiction) Purdue University Press, 2009. Her collection of short stories, Queen of the Sugarhouse, will be released June 1, 2021 by Atmosphere Press.

Writers Retreats:

Ucross Residency Program

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Books:

Body Language:First Of All Do No Harm (Purdue University Press, 2009)

Prayer To A Purple God (Mellen Poetry Press, 2004)

Journals:

International Journal of Healthcare and Humanities

South Dakota Review

Fiction

Book:

Queen of the Sugarhouse (Atmosphere Press, 2021)

Journals:

American Journal of Nursing

Ascent

Birmingham Poetry Review

Bloomsbury Review

Blue Buildings

Calapooya Collage

Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women

Carquinez Poetry Review

Cream City Review

Crucible

Cumberland Poetry Review

Devil's Millhopper

Earth's Daughters

Eclipse

Eleventh Muse

Embers

Georgia State University Review

High Plains Literary Review

Kaleidoscope

Mediphors

Minnesota Review

Mochila Review

North Dakota Quarterly

Paris/Atlantic

Sanskrit Review

Sing Heavenly Muse!

Slab Literary Review

The Sun

Thin Air

Visions International

Westview

Zone 3

Poetry

Anthologies:

The Poetry of Nursing (Kent State University Press, 2006)

Intensive Care (University of Iowa Press, 2003)

The Age of Koestler (Practices of the Wind, 1994)

We Speak For Peace (Knowledge, Ideas & Trends Inc., 1993)

Prairie Smoke: The Pueblo Poetry Project 1979-1989 (University of South Colorado Press, 1990)

Wingbone: Poetry From Colorado (Sudden Jungle Press, 1987)

Toward Solomon's Mountain: The Experience of Disability in Poetry (Temple University Press, 1986)

Hyperion: Black Sun, New Moon (Carolina Wren Press, 1980)

Practices of the Wind (Practices of the Wind, 1980)

Prizes won:

Mary Wade Seybold Prize in English Literature and writing at Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois: won 1970 and 1971.

Winner of the Ann Woodbury Hafen Prize, given by the Poetry Society of Colorado, 1977.

Teaching assistant grants, taught two sections of Introduction to Creative Writing at the Univeresity of Colorado, Boulder,1978-1979 and 1979 to 1980.

The Eleventh Muse, First Place winner of their contest, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 1987.

Finalist in the Nimrod Poetry Contest, Tulsa Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1986.

Embers, First Place winner of their contest, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 1987.

Arts and Assembly of Boulder Grant, Boulder, Colorado, 1988.

Writer's residency at Ucross Foundation, four weeks, Clearmont, Wyoming, 1988.

Neodata Foundation, received a writing grant, 1990.

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, New York, New York, Katherine Sharp Rachlis Memorial Grant, 1990.

Writer's residency at Hedgebrook Cottages, six weeks, Langley, Washington, 1992.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Cortney Davis, Virginia Wolf, Charlotte Bronte, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, Sherwin Nuland, William Carlos Williams, Joseph Campbell, Margaret Atwood, Laurie Garrett, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Tracy Kidder, Isabel Allende, and many more.

What I'm reading now:

A Promised Land by Barack Obama, Passiflora (poems) by Kathy Davis

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Lodi, OH

Ohio

Raised in:

Whitehouse, OH

Ohio

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Last update: May 02, 2021