Kelli Russell Agodon

Kelli Russell Agodon
Born	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Poet, writer, editor
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Washington Pacific Lutheran University
Website
www.agodon.com

Kelli Russell Agodon (born in Seattle) is an American poet, writer, and editor.

Life

She was raised in Seattle, and graduated from the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University Rainier Writing Workshop with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in Washington state. Her works have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Image, 5 a.m, Meridian, Calyx., poets.org , and The Los Angeles Review.

She lives in the Northwest. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the Crab Creek Review from 2009 until 2014. She is the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. She is the Co-Director of the Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women.

Her most recent book, Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014), was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize in Poetry.

Awards

• 2018 Poetry Society of America Lyric Poetry Prize
• 2015 Centrum Residency Recipient
• 2009 Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient
• 2005 James Hearst Poetry Prize 3rd place
• 2003 Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient

Works

• "Hunger," Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day
• "Frida Kahlo Tattoo," Poetry Daily
• "Braided Between the Broken," New England Review
• "How Killer Blue Irises Spread," The Atlantic
• "Letting Gatsby Out at 11 p.m.," Body Literature
• "Sailing Lepidoptera," "The Half-Moon Couple," Adirondack Review
• "Dord"; "Unintentionally Typing the Word Life Instead of Lips"; "?", Womb Poetry
• "Sometimes I still dream about their pink bodies", Poetry Southeast

Books

• Geography. Floating Bridge Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-930446-06-9.
• Small Knots. Cherry Grove Collections. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932339-27-7.
• An Alphabet Between Us. Pacific Lutheran University. 2007.
• Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-935210-15-3
• Hourglass Museum. White Pine Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1935210511.

Anthologies

• Sam Hamill; Sally Anderson, eds. (2003). "Of a Forgetful Sea". Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0.
• Garrison Keillor, ed. (2005). Good poems for hard times. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03436-9.
• Michael A. Lacombe; Tom Hartman, eds. (2008). In Whatever Houses We May Visit: An Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians. ACP Press. ISBN 978-1-934465-06-6.

External links

• Author's website
• Two Sylvias Press