A V. Christie
Ann V. Christie was an American poet.
Life
Ann Victoria Christie, born in Redwood City, California on February 2, 1963, was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montana, and British Columbia. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her master of fine arts degree from the University of Maryland. On April 7, 2016, Christie died of breast cancer in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She was 53.
Her first poetry collection, Nine Skies, won the 1996 National Poetry Series prize. Readers immediately recognized a powerful voice. The poet Henri Cole described it as "hard-bitten, luxuriant and true," and the Philadelphia-area poet Eleanor Wilner called it "diamond-faceted, elliptical." W.S. DiPiero said of her 2014 collection The Wonders that "her poems invoke and respect strangeness and make strangeness feel near."
She was a visiting writer and writer-in-residence at colleges along the Pennsylvania Main Line and regionally, including Villanova and La Salle Universities; Bryn Mawr College; Goucher College in Baltimore; the University of Maryland, College Park; and Penn State Abington.
Her work appears in AGNI,[1] American Poetry Review, Excerpt, The Journal, Ploughshares,[2] Prairie Schooner,.[3]
Ms. Christie's poems, reviews, and interviews were widely published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, the Iowa Review, Commonweal, and other venues. Her collection The Housing, published in 2004, was a cowinner of the Robert McGovern Publication Prize. THE WONDERS, a chapbook-length poem and Editor's Selection, was published in by Seven Kitchens Press in 2014. Her chapbook And I Began to Entertain Doubts is to be published in May 2016 by Folded Word Press.
Awards
- 1997 National Poetry Series, for Nine Skies
- 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize co-winner, for The Housing
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
- Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowship
- Ludwig Vogelstein Fellowship
Works
- The Housing (Ashland Poetry Press).
- Nine Skies. University of Illinois Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-252-06644-3.
Anthologies
- Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The new American poets. University Press of New England.
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