Averill Curdy

Averill Curdy earned an M.F.A. at the University of Houston and her PhD at the University of Missouri. She is the co-editor of the Longman Anthology of Poetry (December, 2005), and her poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Slate, Western Humanities Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She teaches poetry, and was the 2005 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation fellowship for emerging women writers, of a Pushcart Prize in 2006, and of both a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fellowship in Poetry from the Illinois Council for the Arts in 2007.