Emily Hiestand

Emily Hiestand (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.

Life[]

She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at Boston University, with George Starbuck.^[1]

She was an editor at Orion magazine and the Atlantic Monthly.^[2]

Her work appears in Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe Magazine, Bostonia, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New York Times, Orion, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Southeast Review, The Nation,^[3] The New Yorker.^[4][5]

Awards[]

• 1988 National Poetry Series, for Green the Witch Hazel Wood, selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Jorie Graham
• 1988 The Nation/ Discovery Prize
• 1990 Whiting Award

Works[]

Essays[]

• "The Constant Gardener". The Atlantic. March 2007.
• "Real Places". The Atlantic. July–August 2001.
• The Very Rich Hours: Travels in Orkney, Belize, the Everglades and Greece. Beacon Press. 1993. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-8070-7117-5. Emily Hiestand poet.
• Angela the Upside Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels. Beacon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8070-7128-1.

Poetry[]

• Green the Witch Hazel Wood. Graywolf Press. 1989. ISBN 1-55597-120-2.

Anthologies[]

• Robert Finch; John Elder, eds. (2002). "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah". Nature writing: the tradition in English. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 959. ISBN 978-0-393-04966-4. Emily Hiestand poet.
• Jorie Graham; David Lehman, eds. (1990). The best American poetry, 1990. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19187-4.
• Jim Elledge; Susan Swartwout, eds. (1999). Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33434-3.

Reviews[]

Emily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• Author's website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation