Millicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese-American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

. She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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 (NEA), CantoMundo, the California Arts Council

California Arts Council

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, Barbara Deming Foundation, and Formby Special Collections at Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University

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 for research on the writer/activist Key Boyle. Her full-length poetry collection Injuring Eternity is with World Nouveau (Mischievous Muse Press) , and a second collection, Only More So is forthcoming from (Salmon Poetry Ireland), spring 2012. She also has a chapbook

Chapbook

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, Woman on a Shaky Bridge with Finishing Line Press.

Her work has appeared in over 50 publications including Nimrod

Nimrod

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, Tampa Review

Tampa Review

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, New Letters and Wallace Stevens Journal as well as in Boomer Girls (Iowa Press) and Chopin with Cherries (Moonrise Press) anthologies.

Artist Residencies include Yaddo

Yaddo

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, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso

Fundación Valparaíso

Fundación Valparaíso is an international arts residency organization located on the Mediterranean coast of Andalucia, Spain, in the old Moorish hilltown of Mojacar....

 in Mojacar

Mojácar

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, Milkwood

Milkwood

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 in Cesky Krumlov

Český Krumlov

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, CZ and the Portuguese writers conference Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal.

Her theater and book reviews can be found in print and online at The Topanga Messenger.

She received degrees in English and literature from CSULB, holds a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and works as a freelance writer (technical writing and instructional design).

Works

Poetry Collections

• Injuring Eternity, Mischievous Muse, 2010
• Only More So, Salmon Poetry (Ireland), forthcoming 2012

Chapbooks

• Woman on a Shaky Bridge Finishing Line Press, 2010

Awards

1997-98: National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry

2011: Canto Mundo Fellowship

2010: Formby Fellowship, Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2003: California Arts Council Grant for Poetry

2002: Barbara Deming Foundation

1998: Alden B. Dow Fellowship (unable to attend)

1992: Elizabethe Kempthorne Endowment for Creative Writing at USC

1991: State of California Pre-Doctoral Grant

Memberships

PEN/America

Associated Writing Programs Associate

Portuguese-American Women's Association

Canto-Mundo

USC Alumni Association

Society for Technical Communication

External links

• Author website: http://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
• Huffington Post Interview, June 2010: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-baudo-sillerman/millicent-borges-accardi_b_606404.html

• http://www.hercircleezine.com/2010/04/01/woman-on-a-shaky-bridge-by-millicent-borges-accardi/
• http://www.pagelambert.blogspot.com/
• http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/to-the-other-side-and-back-again-millicent-borges-accardis-woman-on-a-shaky-bridge/
• http://womensvoicesforchange.org/millicent-borges-accardi-woman-on-a-shaky-bridge.htm
• http://rattle.com/blog/2010/06/woman-on-a-shaky-bridge-by-millicent-borges-accardi/