E. smith sleigh

BIO

e. smith sleigh writes poetry. She won recognition for her writing in the US and abroad. Sleigh was educated at the universities of Delaware and Michigan, taught at the college level, and has traveled extensively.

e. smith sleigh's poetry appeared or is forthcoming in Paper Darts, Squalorly, Kumquat Poetry, Kaleidoscope, Words Fly Away, Pankhearst’s Slimline, PRISM 'Ekphrasis', The Criterion, Orion, Silver Birch Press and elsewhere.

She won finalist designation in several literary and academic competitions including Eastern Kentucky University’s academic journal Nine Patch: A Creative Journal for Women and Gender Studies.

On her website, THESE THINGS ARE A ONE THING http://bit.ly/iionKS she blogs about Post Structuralism and Poetry.

She was nominated for 2013-2014 Kentucky Poet Laureate. Her 5th poetry book, An American Still Life, is a Pulitzer Poetry Prize nominee for 2016.

Poetry Books: An American Still Life, These Things are a One Thing, Our Nature: External Landscapes and This Nature: Internal Landscapes from the Eternal Nature series, and Musings from the Faultline after Dark.

Her other books are: Post-structuralism and Related Quotes: from Jacques Derrida, Judith Kristeva, and Many Others.

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