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Adrian Blevins
Born
1964 (age 59–60)
Abingdon, Virginia
Education
Virginia Intermont College (B.A.)
Hollins University (M.A.)
Warren Wilson College (M.F.A.)
Occupation(s)
Poet; Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing Program at Colby College
Adrian Blevins (born 1964 in Abingdon, Virginia, United States)[1] is an American poet. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Appalachians Run Amok, winner of the 2016 Wilder Prize (Two Sylvias Press, 2018). Her other full-length poetry collections are Status Pending (Four Way Books, 2023), Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) and The Brass Girl Brouhaha (Ausable Press, now Copper Canyon Press, 2003).[2] With Karen McElmurray, Blevins co-edited Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia (Ohio University Press, 2015), a collection of essays of new and emerging Appalachian poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers.[3] Her chapbooks are Bloodline (Hollyridge Press, 2012) [4] and The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes, which won the first of Bright Hill Press's chapbook contests. (Bright Hill Press, 1996).[5]
Blevins won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 2002.[6] Other prizes include the Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction from the Chattahoochee Review, a Pushcart Prize for "Tally" from Appalachians Run Amok, and other magazine prizes from Ploughshares and Zone 3. She was a Walter Daken Poetry Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2008 and a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2017.
^Ausable Press > Author Page > Adrian Blevins Archived February 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^https://www.adrianblevins.com/
^"Library of Congress Online Catalog". Catalog.loc.gov. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
^"The Chapbook Series". Hollyridgepress.com. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
^"The Man who went out for Cigarettes". Brighthillpress.org. 1 January 1996. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
^"The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards". Ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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