Ellery Akers (born 1946) is an American poet, children's writer, artist, and naturalist.
Ellery Akers. Courtesy ElleryAkers.com.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Akers attended Radcliffe College at Harvard University, where she was an editor of The Advocate, and where she earned a B.A. in 1967.[1]
She took postraduate studies at San Francisco State University, earning an M.A. in 1974.[1]
Career[]
Akers lives on the coast of Northern California.[1] She is the author of a collection of poems, Knocking on the Earth (1989),[2] and an illustrated children's novel, Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse (2009).[3]
Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio, and has appeared in the American Poetry Review,[4] Harvard Magazine,[5] Ploughshares,[6] The Sun,[7] and many other magazines. Her nature essays have been included in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her play, Letters to Anna: 1846-54, won a Dominican University One Act Play Festival Award in 2003.[5]
Akers has taught at Cabrillo College and been on the faculty at writer's conferences at Squaw Valley, Skyline College, and Humboldt State University.[5]
Recognition[]
Akers has won 9 national awards for writing, including the John Masefield Award, the Paumanok Award, the Gordon Barber Award, and Sierra magazine's Nature Writing Award.[1]
Akers has exhibited her artwork in a number of galleries and museums in the United States, and her fellowships include writing residencies at Ucross Foundation,[8] Blue Mountain Center, the MacDowell Colony, and Headlands Center for the Arts.[5]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Turning: A story and poems (as Ellery Jane Akers). San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University, 1974.
- Knocking on the Earth. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
Juvenile[]
- Sarah's Waterfall: A healing story about sexual abuse. Brandon, VT: Safer Society Press, 2009.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[9]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Ah, Wilderness is Paradise Enow," Harvard Crimson, May 8, 1989. Web, Mar. 15, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Knocking-Earth-Wesleyan-New-Poets/dp/0819521612 Akers Poetry
- ↑ http://www.safersociety.org/allbks/wp135.php Akers Fiction
- ↑ https://www.aprweb.org/article/on-writing-feeding-lake Akers NonFiction
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 http://www.elleryakers.com/
- ↑ http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/385 Akers Poetry
- ↑ http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/residency_program/alumni_list/literature.html Akers Residencies
- ↑ Search results = au:Ellery Akers, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 15, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Ellery Akers at Voices: Compassionate education ("The Word That is a Prayer," "The Dead," "Hook")
- Ellery Akers at the Poetry Foundation.
- Poetry at ElleryAkers.com (4 poems)
- Books
- Ellery Akers at Amazon.com
- About
- Ellery Akers Official website.
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