Annie Finch

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Finch's first poetry collection, Eve (Story Line Press, 1997), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003), finalist for the National Poetry Series and shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Book of the Year award, is structured around a series of poems written for performance to celebrate the Wheel of the Year. Her third book, Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (Red Hen Press, 2010), which received the Sarasvati Award for Poetry, is a hybrid work combining narrative and dramatic structure to tell a mythic story about abortion. The Encyclopedia of Scotland was published in 2010 by Salt Publishing in the U.K.; in the same year, Carnegie Mellon University Press reissued Eve in the Contemporary Classics Poetry Series. Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), collects poems from each of Finch's previous books along with previously unpublished poems. The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells (2019), also from Wesleyan University Press, offers small spells of fewer than eight lines, gathered by Finch from the longer poems of Spells.

Finch's poems are collected in anthologies including the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Penguin Book of The Sonnet, Norton Anthology of World Poetry, and Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Her poems for public occasions include a Phi Beta Kappa poem for Yale University and the memorial poem for the September 11 attacks installed in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine (accompanying the commemorative sculpture by Meredith Bergmann). She has written that she believes it is part of her calling as a poet to compose occasional poetry on topics of personal and cultural importance.

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• 2012 Sarasvati Award for Poetry from the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, for Among the Goddesses
• 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Poet, Yale University
• 2009 Robert Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Art and Craft of Versification
• 2008 Fellowship, Black Earth Institute
• 2006 Honorable Mention for a translation in the field of women's studies by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, for Complete Poetry of Louise Labe
• 2005 Alumni Award, University of Houston Creative Writing Program
• 2003 Shortlisted, Forward Poetry Book of the Year Award, for Calendars
• 2002 Finalist, National Poetry Series, for Calendars
• 2002 Finalist, Yale Series of Younger Poets, for Eve
• 2002 Finalist, National Poetry Series, for Eve
• 1993 Nicholas Roerich Fellow, Wesleyan Writers Conference
• 1989 Graduate Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center
• 1979 Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize, Yale University
• 1979 Distinction in English, Yale University