Sidney Wade

Sidney Wade (born 1951) is an American poet. She held the position of professor of creative writing at the University of Florida, where she taught from 1993 through April 2016.

Early life and education Wade was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1951. She attended the University of Vermont, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1974 and an M.Ed. in counseling in 1978. She earned a Ph.D in English from the University of Houston in 1994.

Career Wade has published multiple poetry collections, including Celestial Bodies, Green, From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998), and Empty Sleeves (1990). Istanbul'dan/From Istanbul was published in Turkish and English by Yapi Kredi Publications. Stroke was published by Persea Books, as was Straits and Narrows. Atelier26 Books publisher her 2017 collection, Bird Book, and Johns Hopkins University published her 2020 collection, Deep Gossip.

Her poems have also appeared in The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Southern Review, and other publications. She co-translated a selection from the poems of Melih Cevdet Anday together with Efe Murad under the title Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday. The translation received the 2014 Prize. Some of these translations also appeared in literary journals such as The American Reader, Asymptote, Five Points, Critical Flame, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, The Kenyon Review Turkish Poetry Today, Poet Lore, and Two Lines.

Wade received a Fulbright Fellowship and was a senior lecturer at Istanbul University from 1989–1990. She was awarded the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1994. Wade was the president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in 2006 and 2007.

She served as the judge for the BkMk Press John Ciardi Prize for Poetry in 2009. Wade also served as faculty for the 26th through 30th Sewanee Writers' Conferences.

Personal life Wade lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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