Grace Bauer

Grace Bauer is an American poet.

Life
She grew up in Pennsylvania and has also lived in New Orleans, Montana, Virginia and Massachusetts.

Education
Bauer received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize.

Career
She has taught at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a reader for Prairie Schooner. Bauer has been published in DoubleTake, Poetry, South Dakota Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere.

She lives in Nebraska.

Recognition
Her awards include an Individual Artist's Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a Diggs Teaching Scholar Award and Women's Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, the Irene Leache Poetry Prize, a Nebraska Arts Council Award, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She also won the 1999 Snail's Pace Press Chapbook Competition)

Publications

 * Where You've Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press, 1993)
 * The House Where I've Never Lived (Anabiosis P, 1993)
 * The Women at the Well (Portals Press, 1997)
 * Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems on Marcel Duchamp
 * Beholding Eye (Custom Words, 2006)
 * Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Creative and Critical Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press, Fall 2006).
 * Retreats and Recognitions (Lost Horse Press, 2007)