- Source: Colleen J. McElroy
Colleen J. McElroy (October 31, 1935, in St. Louis, Missouri – December 12, 2023) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, memoirist.
Life
She graduated from Kansas State University (1958) and from the University of Washington with a Ph.D. (1973). She was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, where she was the first African-American woman to serve as a full-time faculty member. From 1995 to 2006, she edited The Seattle Review, first in the role of Poetry Editor, then as Editor-in-Chief. She lived in Seattle, Washington, until her death in December 2023.
Awards
1978 awarded the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry
1985 American Book Award
1988 Fulbright Creative Writing Fellowship, which took her to Yugoslavia
1991 awarded the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Fiction
1992 DuPont Distinguished Scholar in Residence
1991 Rockefeller Fellowship to the Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy
1993 Fulbright Creative Writing Fellowship, which took her to Madagascar.
Works
= Poetry
=Sidewalk Games'
Webs and Weeds
Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
Lothar's Wife
Sleeping with the moon: poems
Travelling music
Bone Flames: Poems
Music from home: selected poems
= Memoirs
=A Long Way from St. Louie
Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
= Short stories
=Driving under the cardboard pines and other stories
Jesus and Fat Tuesday: and other short stories
= Anthologies
=Best American Poetry 2001
Oxford Anthology of African American Literature
= Ploughshares
=While Poets Are Watching
Caution: This Woman Brakes for Memories
Paris Subway Tango
Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy
Furlough
References
External links
McElroy, Colleen J. (b. 1935) at HistoryLink
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- In Broad Daylight (1991 film)
- PEN Oakland awards
