Cleopatra Mathis
Cleopatra Mathis’ sixth book of poems was published by Sarabande Books in 2005. Her collection, What to Tip the Boatman? (Sheep Meadow Press) won the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poems in 2001. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Tri-Quarterly, The Southern Review, and The Georgia Review, and in anthologies including The Made Thing:An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry, and The Extraordinary Tide: Poetry by American Women. Prizes for her work include two NEA grants; the Peter Lavin Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets; two Pushcart Prizes; The Robert Frost Award; a Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and a 2002 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fellowship. Since 1982 she has directed the creative writing program at Dartmouth College, where she is the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor of the Art of Writing.
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