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Nin Andrews and Charles Atkinson
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She was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and grew up on a farm, the youngest of six children.
She studied at Hamilton College and Vermont College. She now lives with her husband, a lawyer
and physicist, and her two children in Poland, Ohio.
Read poems on Nerve,
Slope, and
Verse Daily.
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Charles Atkinson’s most recent collection is
Fossil Honey (Hummingbird Press). His first collection, The Only Cure I Know (San Diego Poets Press),
received the American Book Series award for poetry; a chapbook, The Best of Us on Fire, won the Wayland Press
competition. His chapbook Because We Are Men was awarded the Sow’s Ear Poetry Prize. He has also received
the Stanford Prize, the Comstock Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award (SUNY Farmingdale), the Emily Dickinson
Award (Universities West Press) and The Ledge Poetry Prize.
See the page for Fossil Honey and four poems from Fossil Honey on the Hummingbird Press website. | |
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Nin Andrews is the author of Sleeping with Houdini (BOA
Editions American Poets Continuum Series, 2007), Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane, published in 2005 by Web del Sol,
Spontaneous Breasts, winner of the Pearl Chapbook Contest; Any Kind of Excuse (winner of the Kent State University
chapbook contest, 2003); The Book of Orgasms (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2nd ed. 2001); and
Why They Grow Wings, winner of the Gerald Cable Award (Silverfish Review Press, 2001). She is also the editor
of a book of translations of the French poet Henri Michaux entitled Someone Wants to Steal My Name from
Cleveland State University Press. Her poems and stories have appeared in many literary journals and
anthologies including Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry (1997, 2001, 2003),
The KGB Bar Book of Poems. She received individual artist grants from the Ohio Arts Council in 1997 and 2003.