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Anya Krugovoy Silver (December 22, 1968 – August 6, 2018) was an American poet. She won a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Georgia Author of the Year Award.

Biography

Silver was born in 1968 in Media, Pennsylvania, but raised in Swarthmore, and graduated from Haverford College, and Emory University. She then became a professor at Mercer University. Her work has appeared in The Christian Century, among other publications.

In 2004, Silver was pregnant and teaching at Mercer University when she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer. She gave birth to son Noah and had a mastectomy. The cancer remained, and her coping with it, along with her son and husband, intensified her poetry.

Silver died at age 49 in Macon, Georgia, on August 6, 2018.

Works

• ''Scattered at Sea'', Penguin/Penguin Random House, ISBN 9780143126898
• The Ninety-Third Name of God, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780807136904, OCLC 695838872
• I watched you disappear, Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780807153048, OCLC 908740255
• From Nothing, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780807163467, OCLC 940795255
• Second bloom : poems, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. ISBN 9781532630071, OCLC 1001883912

References

1. "Anya Krugovoy Silver". gf.org.
2. ^ "Historian's memoir wins Georgia Author of the Year Award". news.emory.edu. 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
3. Martin, D. S., ed. (2016). The Turning Aside. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. p. 212.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. "Roads Taken and Not Taken: Anya Krugovoy Silver '90". Retrieved 2018-04-06.
5. "English Professor Dr. Anya Silver Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship | Agenparl". Agenparl (in Italian). 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
6. "Poems of witness". The Christian Century. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
7. Sandomir, Richard (August 10, 2018). "Anya Krugovoy Silver, Poetic Voice on Mortality, Dies at 49". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
8. "Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler, 2015 National Book Award Longlist, Poetry". www.nationalbook.org. Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
9. "Scattered At Sea by Amy Gerstler". The Rumpus.net. 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
10. Jennings, Dana (2011-02-09). "Poetry by C. D. Wright, Sarah Riggs and Others". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
11. "Poetry ex nihilo". The Christian Century. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

External links

• Official website
• Anya Silver page and poem at the Academy of American Poets
• Interview with Anya Krugovoy Silver

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