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Nadia Colburn (born December 5, 1972) is an American poet, teacher, literary critic, and writing coach based in Cambridge, MA. She has published poetry and prose in a wide range of national publications and her poetry book The High Shelf was published in 2019. She was a founding editor of Anchor Magazine. Nadia Colburn is a recipient of Pen/New England Discovery Award and Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.

Early life and education

Colburn grew up in New York City. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a B.A. in English. She went on to get a Ph.D. in English Literature at Columbia University and has worked as a professor at Lesley, MIT, and at Stonehill College.

Colburn co-founded Anchor Magazine: The Intersection of Spirituality and Social Justice in 2013. She is the founder of the writing school Align Your Story. Her classes combine writing, mindfulness, and embodied practices. Colburn often writes about the environment, social justice, women's issues, and mindfulness. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband and two children.

Writing

Colburn's poetry and prose have been published in Harvard Review, Midway Journal, The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Southwest Review, Oxford's Literary Imagination, The Kenyon Review, Spirituality and Health, Lion's Roar, and Slate. Her essay "Listening to My Body" was included in The Anatomy of Silence: Twenty-Six Stories About All the Sh** That Gets in the Way of Speaking About Sexual Violence. She was a contributing author in The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Colburn's debut poetry book on pregnancy, nature, trauma, and love, The High Shelf, was published in 2019. She has written reviews on books and arts for Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, and Boston Review.

Recognition

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
• Bunner Prize for Best American Essay at Columbia University
• Pen/New England Discovery Award

References

1. "The High Shelf". Kirkus Reviews.
2. ^ "Poet Nadia Colburn is featured Sunday at Cohasset Author Talks". Cohaset.
3. ^ Smith, Stan (2005). The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden (p. vii). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53647-2.
4. "Nadia Colburn". Staging/Los Angeles Review of Books.
5. "Love Poem by Nadia Herman Colburn". Slate.
6. "Nadia Colburn". LARB.
7. "These B-Schoolers made their dream business a reality". Marie Forleo’s B-School Reviews.
8. "Tiny Poem". Still Harbor.
9. ^ "Meet Nadia Colburn of Nadia Colburn: Align Your Story Mindful Writing and Coaching in Cambridge". Boston Voyager.
10. ^ "Nadia Herman Colburn". Harvard Review Online.
11. "Nadia Colburn". MidWay Journal.
12. "VOLUME 45, NO. 06 (November/December)". The American Poetry Review.
13. "One's Own Vehicle". Literary Imagination (Volume 12, Issue 2, July 2010).
14. "The End". The New Yorker.
15. Colburn, Nadia (2009). "Chardin: Love, Painting, Power, and Powerlessness: An excerpt from "New Life": A Memoir of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood". Southwest Review. 94 (4): 532–539. JSTOR 43473024.
16. "About Nadia Herman Colburn". Kenyon Review.
17. "Nadia Colburn". Spirituality & Health.
18. "Colburn's publications". The Lion's Roar.
19. "The Anatomy of Silence: Twenty-Six Stories About All The Shit That Gets in the Way of Speaking About Sexual Violence". Publishers Weekly.
20. "THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO W.H. AUDEN". VillaNova University.
21. "The High Shelf". Eco Theo Review.
22. "Content from Nadia Herman Colburn". The Boston Review.
23. Colburn, Nadia (2002). "Contributors' Notes". Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (37): 198–207. JSTOR 41804536.

External links

• Nadia Colburn

• Living people
• 1972 births
• Harvard College alumni
• Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• American women poets
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American women writers
• American women non-fiction writers
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers