Deborah Woodard
she/her
poet, translator, teacher at Richard Hugo House, Curator at MarginShift: friends in poetry
Deborah Woodard holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a PhD from the University of Washington. She is the author of Plato's Bad Horse (Bear Star Press, 2006), Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats, 2012), and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911 (Ravenna Press, 2018). Her chapbook Hunter Mnemonics (hemel press, 2008) was illustrated by artist Heide Hinrichs. She has translated Amelia Rosselli with Giuseppe Leporace in The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems: 1953 - 1981 (Chelsea Editions, 2009) and with Roberta Antognini in Hospital Series (New Directions, 2015) and Obtuse Diary (Entre RÃos Books, 2018). Woodard teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and co-curates the reading series Margin Shift.
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Plato’s Bad Horse (Bear Star Press, 2006)
Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats, 2012)
No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911 (Ravenna Press, 2018)
Hunter Mnemonics (hemel press, 2008)
Translations
The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems: 1953– 1981 (Chelsea Editions, 2009)
Hospital Series (New Directions, 2015)
Obtuse Diary (Entre RÃos Books, 2018),
The Dragonfly (Entre Rios Books, 2023)
Notes Scattered and Lost (Entre Rios Books, forthcoming 2024)
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