Averill Curdy
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Life
She received her MFA from the University of HoustonUniversity of Houston
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and her PhD from the University of Missouri
University of Missouri
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Curdy worked as an arts administrator and as a marketing manager and technical editor.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Raritan and the Kenyon Review.
She lives in Chicago
Chicago
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and is a Professor at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
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Awards
- 2007 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Rona Jaffe Foundation fellowship
- 2007 Lannan Writing Marfa Residency Fellowship
Works
- "Anatomical Angel", Poetry, (June 2006)
- "To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)", Poetry, (June 2009)
- "Hardware", Poetry, (June 2009)
- "Probation", Poetry, (April 2005)
- "Femme Fatale", Slate, June 1, 2004