Angela Sorby

Angela Sorby (born 1965 ) is an American poet, professor, and literary scholar.

Biography Angela Sorby was born in Seattle, Washington. In 2024 she teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature. She is particularly interested in how poetry engages with children and childhood.

Selected works Distance Learning (New Issues Press, 1998); Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry (University Press of New England, 2005) Bird Skin Coat (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 The Sleeve Waves (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014

Literary awards

Felix Pollak Prize (2014) John Fiske Poetry Prize, University of Chicago Midwest Book Award Brittingham Prize in Poetry Discovery/The Nation Prize Lorine Niedecker Prize