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Ann Fisher-Wirth’s third book of poems, Carta Marina, has just been accepted by Wings Press for publication in 2009. Ann has published two books of poems—Blue Window (Archer Books, 2003) and Five Terraces (Wind Publications, 2005)—and two chapbooks—The Trinket Poems (Wind, 2003: runner-up for the Quentin R. Howard Chapbook Prize) and Walking Wu Wei’s Scroll (online, Drunken Boat, 2005).
Ann's prizes include a Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Rita Dove Poetry Award, a Poetry Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and two Poetry Fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission. She has received six Pushcart nominations and, for 2007, a Pushcart Special Mention. Twice her work has been short-listed for the Tupelo Press Open Readings award; she has received Honorable Mention in the Center for Book Arts Chapbook competition, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Competition, and the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize competition; and she has been a Finalist for many book contests and prizes.
Ann's poems have appeared or will appear in many journals, including The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, ISLE, Blackbird, How2, Many Mountains Moving, The Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, and Runes, as well as in numerous anthologies. A recent essay, “The Authority of Poetry,” appears online in Studio. Ann is also part of the editorial team for the newly released anthology Letters to the World: Poems from the WOM-PO Listserv, published by Red Hen Press.
Ann teaches at the University of Mississippi, and has held a Fulbright lecturership at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Uppsala University, Sweden. She also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Chatham College. In 2006 she was President of the 1000-member international Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Her academic publications include a book, William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature, and numerous articles on American writers.