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Margot Wizansky [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Brookline, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
mwizanskypoetry@gmail.com
Bio: 

Wizansky’s poems appear in journals such as New Ohio Review, Spillway, Cimarron, Missouri Review. She edited Mercy of Tides, Rough Places Plain, and What the Poem Knows, Tribute to Barbara Helfgott Hyett. She won a Carlow University residency, Ireland, a Writers@Work [2] fellowship, Salt Lake City, transcribed the oral history of Emerson Stamps, his grandparents, enslaved, parents, sharecroppers. Missouri Review, 2018, featured poems about him. Wild for Life, her chapbook was published by Lily Poetry Review, 2021.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Allentown, PA
Pennsylvania
Website: 
https://margotwiz.com [3]
Prizes won: 

Writers@Work [2] Fellowship, Salt Lake City, 2008

Carlow University Residency, Sligo, Ireland, 2010

What I'm reading now: 
The Woman Who Died in her Sleep by Linda Gregerson
Identifies as: 
White

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