Nancy Eimers
Nancy Eimers is the author of two collections of poetry, No Moon, chosen by Ellen Bryant Voigt as winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Prize, and Destroying Angel (Wesleyan/Uni-versity Press of New England, 1991). She has been the recipient of a Nation "Discovery" Award, two NEA Creative Writing fellow-ships, and a 1998 Whiting Writers Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women, Best American Poetry 1996, Poets Of The New Century, The New Bread Loaf Anthology Of Contemporary American Poetry, The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades Of American Poetry, Paris Review, Triquarterly, Antioch Review, Field, and Poetry Northwest. She has been a faculty member at the Prague Summer Program. She teaches Creative Writing at Western Michigan University and in the MFA Program at Vermont College.
Read "The Spirit Behind the Letter" by Lisa Simon, a Poetry Santa Cruz interview with Nancy Eimers and William Olsen. Read the Wesleyan University Press review of Destroying Angel.