Debra Allbery

Debra Allbery (born March 3, 1957, in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet.

Life Allbery is an Ohio native, though she currently lives in Fairview, North Carolina. She has graduated from the College of Wooster, the University of Virginia, and the University of Iowa, has taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, the University of Michigan, and was the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College from 2009 to 2023, where she has served on the poetry faculty since 1995.

Her work has appeared in Crazy Horse, The Missouri Review, Ironwood, Iowa Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review, and she is among the poets included in The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones.

Awards 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Walking Distance 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship Two NEA fellowships 1989 "Discovery"/The Nation prize 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry

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