Margaree Little is the author of REST (Four Way Books, 2018), winner of the 2018 Balcones Poetry Prize and the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She holds a B.A. in Literature and Culture in English, with Honors, from Brown University, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Warren Wilson College.
Margaree’s poems, criticism, and creative non-fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, The Missouri Review, and The Southern Review, among other journals and anthologies. Her translations from the Russian of Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva appear in American Poetry Review, Asymptote, InTranslation (The Brooklyn Rail), and the Michigan Quarterly Review. With Jaquira Díaz, she created and co-edited Resistance, Change, Survival, an extended special feature in KROnline on issues of art, resistance, and the current political climate.
Margaree is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a John Ciardi Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig residency, a Bread Loaf/ Bakeless Camargo France Fellowship, a Kenyon Review Fellowship, and an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, among other awards and honors. Her manuscript in progress, THE GARGOYLES OF SAINTE-CHAPELLE, has been supported by a Research & Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She lives in Tucson and teaches at the University of Arizona.
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