Robin Caudell

Poet

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Author's Bio

Robin Caudell is an AP award-winning journalist and videographer.
She has been a Staff Writer at the Press-Republican since 1990.
Born and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore, she holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland at College Park and a MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.
She is a founding member of the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association/North Star Museum at Ausable Chasm and the Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum.
A Cold War and United States Air Force Veteran, she served from 1986-1990 and rose to the rank of Sgt.
She is a Cave Canem alum and served as an Adirondack Center for Writing instructor at FCI Ray Brook for eight years.
She also was a counselor/writer for the summer-writing program of the National Book Foundation at Bennington College.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Temba Tupu! (Walking Naked) African Women's Poetic Self-Image (Africa World Press, 2008)

The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (University of Georgia Press, 2007)

Temba Tupu! (Walking Naked) African Women's Poetic Self-Image (Africa World Press, )

Journals:

Pembroke Magazine

Studies in American Indian Literatures

Prizes won:

Robin Caudell's unpublished haibun, “Black Heel Strings: A Tidewater Memoir,” has garnered several awards including a 2008 Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, MA and a 2002 Bread Loaf Tuition Scholarship at Middlebury College, where she studied with Terry Tempest Williams.
In 1999, a haibun excerpt received Honorable Mention in The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Competition.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Jane Austen Toni Morrison Ernest Hemingway

What I'm reading now:

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter, The Patron Saint of Cauliflower by Elizabeth Cohen, Finding True North: A History of One Small Corner of the Adirondacks by Fran Yardley, Breakout by Kate Messner

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

African American, Native American

Prefers to work with:

Adults, At Risk Youth, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Seniors, Veterans

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Easton, MD

Maryland

Raised in:

Preston, MD

Maryland

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Last update: Jul 26, 2018