 Deborah
Fries has published her poems in North American Review,
Cream City Review, Cimarron Review, Terrain.org, ForPoetry
and other print and online journals. She is the author
of Various Modes of Departure, published by Kore Press
in 2004 and selected in 2003 by Carolyn Forché
as the winner of the second Kore Press First Book
Award. She works in multiple genres – including
essays, poetry, short fiction and non-fiction. She
holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 2002, she attended the
Catskill Poetry Workshop, where she studied with Dave
Smith and Steve Dunn, an experience that returned
her to poetry after a long hiatus. A 2004 recipient
of a grant from the Leeway Foundation, she lives in
Elkins Park. |
