Sally Ball
Sally Ball | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Williams College, Warren Wilson College |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Margaret Bridgman Fellow |
Sara Louise "Sally" Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of Annus Mirabilis (Barrow Street Press, 2005). Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Rivendell, Slate, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction.
Life
[edit]She earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Beloit College, and worked at the Washington University in St. Louis International Writers Center.[1][2] She is associate director of Four Way Books.[3][4] She teaches at Arizona State University.[5]
Honors and awards
[edit]- 2011 Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship
- 2007 Margaret Bridgman Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Published works
[edit]Full-Length Poetry Collections
- Hold Sway, Barrow Street Press. Forthcoming April 2019.[6]
- Annus mirabilis. Barrow Street Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9728302-4-9.
- Wreck Me, Barrow Street Press, 2013. ISBN 9780981987682
Anthology Publications
- Richard Howard; David Lehman, eds. (1995). "Nocturnal". The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-80151-3.
References
[edit]- ^ "Issues | Ploughshares".
- ^ "The Record - the Source - Washington University in St. Louis". 15 June 2023.
- ^ "Poetry Daily Feature: Sally Ball - Annus Mirabilis". Archived from the original on 2010-01-16. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
- ^ "Home". fourwaybooks.com.
- ^ "Sally Ball | iSearch".
- ^ "ASU author's new poetry book wrestles with hope, lament in climate change". The Arizona State Press. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
External links
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- Author Website
- Poems: "Dear Matthew" and others, Narrative, Spring 2011
- Poem: "One Story of Conversion", Poetry Daily
- Poems: "In Hannover: Clairvoyance", Drunken Boat, Spring 2005
- Poems: "Gymnasium", Ploughshares, Winter 1996–97
- Poems: "Questiones, Ploughshares, Spring 2004
- Poem: "Visiting the Real Ranch", slate, July 15, 2008
- Poems: "Sound Bow, Lip, Mouth"; "Phobic Darling"; "After Valentine's Day", Locus Point, 31 August 2008
| International | |
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| National | |
- Arizona State University faculty
- Beloit College faculty
- Warren Wilson College alumni
- Washington University in St. Louis faculty
- Williams College alumni
- Living people
- American women academics
- Writers from Phoenix, Arizona
- American women poets
- American editors
- Poets from Arizona
- 21st-century American poets
- American women essayists
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American essayists