Glori Simmons
American writer
Glori Simmons (born 1966) is an American poet, and short story writer.
Simmons graduated from the University of Washington and from the University of Michigan with an MFA. She was a 2003 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
She is the author of Graft/Poems (Truman State University Press, 2001) and the recipient of the 2015 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea 79, Five Fingers Review and Quarterly West.
She is the director of the Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco.
Awards
2001 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award co-winner
2001 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, by the Beloit Poetry Journal
2004 Dana Award, for short fiction
2005 Camargo Foundation Fellowship
2005 Chelsea Award, for short fiction
2015 Spokane Prize, for short fiction (collection)
2017 Autumn House Fiction Prize [1]
Works
"Graft", Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol 51, Summer 2001 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
Graft: poems. Truman State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-931112-03-1.
Stephen Elliott; Greg Larson; Anthony Ha, eds.
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