Debora Greger

Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist.

She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida until retiring. She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art.

Her poetry has been included in six volumes of The Best American Poetry and she has exhibited her artwork at several galleries and museums across the country. She also has a poem on Poetry 180 in number 42. Her work appeared in Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, and The New Criterion.

She lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic, William Logan.

Awards 2012: Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry 2004: John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College 1996: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Finalist 1991: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1990: Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1988: Brandeis University Poetry Award 1987: Academy of American Poets' Peter I.B. Lavan Award 1987: Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1985: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1982: Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship 1979: "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Prize 1977: Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Fellowship 1974: Grolier Prize in Poetry Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship

Books 2017: In Darwin's Room. Penguin. 2012: By Herself. Penguin. 2008: Men, Women, and Ghosts. Penguin. 2004: Western Art. Penguin. 2001: God. Penguin. 1996: Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters. Penguin. 1994: Off-Season at the Edge of the World. University of Illinois Press. 1990: The 1002nd Night. Princeton University Press. 1985: Blank Country (limited edition chapbook). Meadow Press. 1985: And. Princeton University Press. 1980: Cartography (limited edition chapbook). Penumbra Press. 1980: Movable Islands. Princeton University Press.