Arda Collins

Arda Collins is an American poet, and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

Life

Collins worked on public television documentaries, from 1997-2003. Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.[1]

She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.[2][3]

She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.[4][5] She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College.[6]

Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker,[7] The American Poetry Review,[8] A Public Space,[9] and Gutcult.

Awards

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