Printable view of Constance E. Studer

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Louisville, CO

Colorado US

Email:

cstjam@yahoo.com

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.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

No

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

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.

Born in:

Lodi, OH

Ohio

Raised in:

Whitehouse, OH

Ohio

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.

What I'm reading now:

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Passiflora (poems) by Kathy Davis

Writers Retreats:

Ucross Residency Program

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any