Nancy Vieira Couto [1]
Listed as:
Poet
Public address:
Ithaca,
NY
New York US
Email:
nvcouto611@gmail.com
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Twitter/X:
nvcouto611
Born in:
New Bedford,
MA
Massachusetts
Raised in:
New Bedford & Dartmouth,
MA
Massachusetts
Website:
Prizes won:
Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Fellowship, 2002; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1999; Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1998; American Antiquarian Society-Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowship, 1995; Gettysburg Review Award for 1994 in the Field of Poetry; Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1987; New York State Creative Artists Program Service Fellowship, 1982-1983
Education:
Cornell University
Writers Retreats:
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
DISQUIET International Literary Program
MacDowell
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Identifies as:
Portuguese American