Spruijt-Metz Donna

Poet

Los Angeles , CA
California US
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Author's Bio

Donna Spruijt-Metz’s debut poetry collection is ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’ (2023, Free Verse Editions, Palette Press). She is an emeritus psychology professor, MacDowell fellow, rabbinical school drop-out, and former classical flutist. She was featured as one of ‘5 over 50 debut authors’ in Poets & Writers Magazine (11/23). Her chapbooks include ‘Slippery Surfaces’, ‘And Haunt the World’ (with Flower Conroy). and ‘Dear Ghost’ (winner, 2023 Harbor Review Editor’s prize).  Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets, Tahoma Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a reader for Psaltery & Lyre magazine and co-stewards the national Poetry Grind.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
General Release from the Beginning of the World (Parlor Press, 2023)
Chapbook:
Slippery Surfaces (Finishing Line Press, 2019)
Journals:
American Journal of Poetry
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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Carl Phillips Ada Limon Gabrielle Calvocoressi Rick Barot
What I'm reading now: 
Unalone by Jessica Jacobs, Fugitive/Refuge by Phillip Metres

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Other
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Dutch, English
Born in: 
Los Angeles , CA
California
Raised in: 
Balboa, CA
California
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Last update: Feb 24, 2024