Judith Vollmer

Judith Vollmer (b. 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and editor. She is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg where she teaches such courses as Intro to Poetry, Nature Writing, World Poetry, and Political Poetry, and co-teaches American Poetry and the Creative Process. Vollmer is co-editor of 5 AM, a national poetry journal. She has won Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo, Centrum Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and Vermont Studio Colony. In 1990 she won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Published works

• The Water Books, poetry (Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, forthcoming 2012)
• Reactor, poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)
• The Door Open To the Fire, poetry (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1998)
• Black Butterfly, poetry (New York: Center for Book Arts, 1997)
• Level Green, poetry; winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990)

External links

• Author Page: University of Wisconsin Press > Judith Vollmer
• University of Pittsburgh at Greenburg > Faculty Bio > Judith Vollmer