Title: Writer in Residence
Program: Creative Writing
Department: English
Office: Benson 403
Phone: 322-2369
Email: beth.bachmann@vanderbilt.edu
Personal Website
Degrees
- M.A. Johns Hopkins University
- M.A. Concordia University, Montreal
- B.A. Loyola College
Research Area
- Poetry Writing
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Gender Studies
Current Research
- Read an excerpt from my new manuscript:
- https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2011/award_8/
Current Courses
- 123 Beginning Poetry Workshop
- 115.7 Women Poets in America
- 116 Introduction to Poetry
- 202 Literature & the Craft of Creative Writing - Honors
- 206 Intermediate Poetry Workshop
Previous Positions
- Book Review Editor, The Southern Review
Professional Honors
- Winner of the 2011 Poetry Society of America Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
- Bread Loaf Fellowship, 2010
- Sewanee Writer's Conference Fellowship, 2010
- Winner of the 2010 Kate Tufts Award
- Winner of the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize, Pitt Poetry Series, 2008
- Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission, FY 2007
- John Atherton Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2006
- American Poet Prize, 2005
- Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2004
Publications
- Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize, selected by Lynn Emanuel, University of Pittsburgh Press (2009)
- Evasion (BWR Chapbook Series 2008)
- Poems appear in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Agni, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Tin House, and Ploughshares, among other journals, and are anthologized in Best New Poets 2005 & 2007, Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis and Wonderland, storySouth: The Best of the South 2005, The Practice of Creative Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's).
Biography
www.bethbachmann.com