- Source: Monica Ferrell
Shana Monica Ferrell (born November 8, 1975) is an American poet and fiction writer. In 2007, she was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for her debut book of poems, Beasts for the Chase. Her novel, The Answer Is Always Yes, was published by Random House in 2008. Her third book, a poetry collection entitled You Darling Thing, was published by Four Way Books in 2018 and was named a New & Noteworthy selection by The New York Times. It became a finalist for the Believer Book Award in Poetry and for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
Early life and education
Ferrell was born in New Delhi, India to a Punjabi mother and an American father. She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University's School of the Arts and is married to poet and editor Michael Dumanis. Currently, she is the Doris and Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College (SUNY).
Career
Ferrell won the "Discovery"/The Nation prize in 2001. From 2002 to 2004 she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Baffler, Black Clock, Fence, Gulf Coast, New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, and The Yale Review, and in anthologies such as Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (Penguin India).
Bibliography
2008:Beasts for the Chase (poetry, Sarabande Books)
2008:The Answer Is Always Yes (novel, Random House)
2018:You Darling Thing (poetry, Four Way Books)
Honors and awards
"Discovery/The Nation prize in 2001
finalist for the Asian American Writers' Workshop Prize in Poetry
fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation
Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University
finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Joe Chrest
- Drunk History
- Daftar film Amerika tahun 2010
- Daftar film Amerika tahun 1998
- Daftar film Amerika tahun 2007
- Chance the Rapper
- Amy Adams
- Maximum Effort
- Daftar film Amerika tahun 2003
- Daftar bintang tamu SpongeBob SquarePants
- Monica Ferrell
- Ferrell
- Monica (given name)
- Asian American Writers' Workshop
- Monica Padman
- Hyphen (magazine)
- Daddy's Home (film)
- Andrea Savage
- Black Clock
- List of Bennington College people