Emily Hiestand (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.

Emily Hiestand
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • poet
EducationPhiladelphia College of Art
Boston University
Notable awardsWhiting Award (1990)
Website
www.ehiestand.com

Life

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She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at Boston University, with George Starbuck.[1]

She was an editor at Orion magazine and the Atlantic Monthly.[2]

Her work appears in Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe Magazine, Bostonia, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New York Times, Orion, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Southeast Review, The Nation,[3] The New Yorker.[4][5]

Awards

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Works

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Essays

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  • "The Constant Gardener". The Atlantic. March 2007.
  • "Real Places". The Atlantic. July–August 2001.
  • The Very Rich Hours: Travels in Orkney, Belize, the Everglades and Greece. Beacon Press. 1993. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-8070-7117-5. Emily Hiestand poet.
  • Angela the Upside Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels. Beacon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8070-7128-1.

Poetry

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Anthologies

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Reviews

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Emily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "BU Bridge Feature Article".
  2. ^ "Poetry Reading by Emily Hiestand | College of the Holy Cross". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
  3. ^ "The Nation Digital Archive 1865-2006". Archived from the original on 2006-07-03.
  4. ^ "Travel Slides". The New Yorker. 14 August 1995.
  5. ^ "Emily Hiestand". 25 May 1994.
  6. ^ Leslie Chess Feller (April 18, 1999). "Books in Brief". The New York Times.
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