Kelli Russell Agodon
Encyclopedia
Life
She was raised in Seattle, and graduated from the University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
, and Pacific Lutheran University
Pacific Lutheran University
Pacific Lutheran University is located in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington. In September 2009, PLU had a student population of 3,582 and approximately 280 full-time faculty...
with an MFA. She lives in the Kingston, Washington
Kingston, Washington
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. She is the co-editor of the Crab Creek Review. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Image, 5 a.m, Meridian, Calyx.
She is married and lives in the Northwest.
She is co-editor of Crab Creek Review.
Awards
- 2010 Book of the Year in Poetry from Foreword Magazine
- White Pine Press Poetry Book Prize 2009 (judged by Carl Dennis)
- 2003 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award
- Washington State Artist Trust GAP grants
- 2005 James Hearst Poetry Prize 3rd place
- Dorothy Rosenberg Poetry Prize
- William Stafford Award
- Carlin Aden Award for formal verse
- Soapstone Writer's Residency
- Puffin Foundation grant
Works
- "Sailing Lepidoptera," "The Half-Moon Couple, Adirondack Review
- "Dord"; "Unintentionally Typing the Word Life Instead of Lips"; "?", Womb Poetry
- "Sometimes I still dream about their pink bodies", Poetry Southeast
- "How Killer Blue Irises Spread", The Atlantic
- Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press, 2010, ISBN 9781935210153