Colleen J. McElroy

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Colleen J. McElroy
Language English
Nationality African American
Alma mater Kansas State University
Notable works Sidewalk Games
Notable awards American Book Award

Colleen J. McElroy (born 1935 St. Louis, Missouri) is an American poet, short story writer, editor, memoirist.[1][2]

Life

She graduated from Kansas State University (1958) and from the University of Washington with a Ph.D. (1973).[3] She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle, Washington.[4]

Awards

Works

Poetry

  • Sidewalk Games'[5]
  • Webs and Weeds[6]
  • Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide[7]
  • Lothar's Wife[8]
  • Sleeping with the moon: poems[9]
  • Travelling music[10]
  • Bone Flames: Poems[11]
  • Music from home: selected poems[12]

Memoirs

  • A Long Way from St. Louie[13]
  • Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar[14]

Short Stories

  • Driving under the cardboard pines and other stories[15]
  • Jesus and Fat Tuesday: and other short stories[16]

Anthologies

  • Best American Poetry 2001[17]
  • Oxford Anthology of African American Literature[18]

Ploughshares

  • While Poets Are Watching[19]
  • Caution: This Woman Brakes for Memories [20]
  • Paris Subway Tango[21]
  • Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy[22]
  • Furlough[23]

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