Beth
Ann Fennelly
Associate Professor of English
[Curriculum Vita]
Office: Bondurant W104
Telephone: 662-915-7914
E-mail: bafennel@olemiss.edu
EDUCATION
- Diane Middlebrook postdoctoral fellowship, University of Wisconsin (1999)
- M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Arkansas (1998)
- B.A., English, magna cum laude, University of Notre Dame (1993)
BOOKS
- Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother. W. W. Norton, 2006.
- Tender Hooks. W. W. Norton, 2004.
- Open House. Zoo Press, 2002. (Winner of The Kenyon Review Prize and the GLCA New Writers Award)
- A Different Kind of Hunger. Texas Review Press, 1998. (Winner of the 1997 Texas Review Chapbook Breakthrough Award)
POEMS IN ANTHOLOGIES
- "Souvenir." The Best America Poetry 2006, Ed. Billy Collins, Scribner (forthcoming).
- Lineas Connectadas: Nueva Poesia de los Estados Unidos, Ed. April Linder, Translation Ed. Hernan Lara Zavalla, Sarabande Books (forthcoming).
- "Bite Me," "Lo, the Child Displayeth Cunning," and "Favors." Writing Under the Influence: Female Poets and Their Mentors, Ed. Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg, Carnegie Mellon Press (forthcoming).
- "I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese." Best American Poetry 2005, Ed. Paul Muldoon, Scribner (2005): 46-47.
- "I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese." 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. Ed. Billy Collins, Random House (2005): 15-16.
- "Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field." Contemporary American Poetry, Eds. R.S. Gwynn and April Linder, Longman/Penguin (2005): 483-484.
- "Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding." The Peguin Book of Sonnet. Ed. Phillis Levin. Peguin (2001): 335.
- "Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field." Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming.
- "Madame L. Describes the Siege of Paris." Poets of the New Century, 2001.
- "The Impossibility of Language." The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXV. Ed. Bill Henderson. The Pushcart Press, 2001.
- "Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding." The Best American Poetry 1996. Ed. Adrienne Rich. New York: Scribner's, 1997.
ESSAYS
- "Various Parts of the Elephant: On Metaphor." Fourth Genre (forthcoming).
- "The Winnowing of Wildness: Style and First Book Contests." The Writer's Chronicle (forthcoming).
HONORS/AWARDS
- Grants from the State of Illinois Arts Council in poetry and the National Endowment for the Arts in poetry and the Mississippi Arts Commission in Nonfiction.
- Fellowships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and at the University of Wisconsin.
- Winner of a Pushcart Prize and twice included in The Best American Poetry series.
- Read Poetry at the Library of Congress at the invitation of the U.S. Poet Laureate.