Deborah Ager
Encyclopedia
Life
Ager founded the poetry magazine known as 32 poems32 poems
32 Poems Magazine is a literary magazine, founded in the American states of Maryland and Texas in 2003, that has published poems from writers around the world.-Beginning:...
or 32 Poems Magazine in 2003 with the poet John Poch. She was educated at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
(B.A.) and the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
(M.F.A.).
Her writing has appeared in New England Review
New England Review
The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal...
, The Georgia Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review, Barn Owl, North American Review
North American Review
The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...
, and Best New Poets 2006. She has received fellowships and/or scholarships from the MacDowell Colony
MacDowell Colony
The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...
, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She was a Walter E. Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholar.
Her manuscript, Midnight Voices, was a semifinalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize in 2007 before being accepted for publication by Cherry Grove Collections.
In 2011, she edited the poetry anthology Poetry Doesn't Need You with the poet John Poch and scholar Bill Beverly. The book is forthcoming in 2012.
Works
- From the Fishouse, May 2011
- "The Problem With Describing Men"
- "Mangos", Delaware Poetry Review, March 2003
- "Alone"; "Dear Deborah"; "Morning", La Petite zine, 2002
- "The Lake", Connecticut Review, 2002
- "Night in Iowa", Georgia Review, 2000
- "Night: San Francisco", New England Review, 2002
- "Santa Fe In Winter", New England Review, 2002
- "The Space Coast", American Literary Review, 2002
- "The Tortoise In Keystone Heights" American Literary Review, 2002
1st edition WordFarm Press, edited with John Poch and Bill Beverly 1st edition Cherry Grove Collections