Doreen Gildroy
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from Warren Wilson CollegeWarren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College is a private four-year work college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, United States near Asheville. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad," which requires every student to work an on-campus job, perform at least one hundred...
with an M.F.A. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, The Colorado Review, The Marlboro Review, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Volt.
She lives in California with her husband, poet Michael Ryan
Michael Ryan (poet)
Michael Ryan has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.-Life:He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers...
, and their daughter, Emily.
Awards
- 2002 John C. Zacharis First Book AwardJohn C. Zacharis First Book AwardThe John C. Zacharis First Book Award honors the best first book of poetry or fiction by a Ploughshares writer. The award carries a cash prize of $1,500, and feature publication in the "Postscripts" section of the Winter issue. It was started in 1991....
- Bread Loaf Writers' ConferenceBread Loaf Writers' ConferenceThe Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is a writers' conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont...
Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry
Works
- "How She Moves Her Hand", American Poetry Review, Vol. 36 No. 3
- American Poetry Review, Vol. 33 No. 5
- "What I Looked at Today ", Ploughshares, Winter 1998-99
- "Winds", Ploughshares, Winter 1998-99
- "Viva Vox", Ploughshares, Winter 2005-06
- "Human Love", Slate, Sept. 27, 2005