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