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Sandra Meek © Paul O'Mara
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In An Ecology of Elsewhere (Persea 2016) Sandra Meek creates images of what is forgotten and endangered in South African landscapes. She is the author of six collections of poetry. Still, her latest book, is forthcoming from Persea Books in January 2020. She is also the editor of the book Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark 2007). In 2011 she was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and in 2015 winner of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society America and has been nominated three times for the Georgia Author of the Year, twice for the Peace Corps Writers Award – from 1989 to 1991 she was a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Manyana, Botswana –, both of which she won in 2017 in the Poetry category. She is a co-founder and editor of the Ninebark Press, chair of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, poetry editor in the Phi Kappa Phi Forum and Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing at Berry College.
Publications:
An Ecology of Elsewhere, Persea 2016
Road Scatter, Persea 2012
Biogeography, Tupelo 2008
Burn, 2005
Nomadic Foundations, 2002
Awards (selection):
National Endowment for the Arts Stipendium 2011
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award 2015
Georgia Author of the Year 2017
Peace Corps Writers Award 2017