Discipline: Literature – poetry

Debra Allbery

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Fairview, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987, 1990, 1990, 1991

Debra Allbery has taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, and the University of Michigan, in addition to the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, which she has served as faculty member since 1995 and director since 2009. Recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is the author of Walking Distance (U. of Pittsburgh Press), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Fimbul-Winter (Four Way Books, 2011), winner of the Grub Street Prize in poetry. Her work has appeared in Iowa Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review, and elsewhere, and anthology appearances include Hammer and Blaze, edited by Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh (U of Georgia, 2002), and The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry, edited by Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning (U of Michigan, 2010). She earned a B.A. in English from the College of Wooster in 1979, an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa in 1982, and an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia in 1994.

Studios

Garland

Debra Allbery worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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