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Ellen Dore Watson
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Office: Wright Hall 210

Phone: 585-3368

Ellen Dore Watson earned B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Massachusetts.

She has published three collections of poems, most recently Ladder Music, which won the 2000 New York/New England Award from Alice James Books. Her work has been published widely in journals, including The American Poetry Review and The New Yorker. She has also translated a dozen books from the Brazilian Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park, by Adélia Prado (for which she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship) and serves as translation editor of The Massachusetts Review.

Watson is the director of the Poetry Center at Smith College.