Ellen Doré Watson’s recent awards include fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. She serves as co-editor of The Massachusetts Review, teaches in the Drew University MFA program in Poetry and Translation, and at Smith, and has directed the Poetry Center since 1999.

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In her most recent volume, Dogged Hearts (Tupelo Press 2010), Watson lends her voice to a multiplicity of characters, each with his or her own dilemma, distraction, or disarray. Earlier books include Broken Railings (winner of the Green Lake Chapbook Prize from Owl Creek Press), We Live in Bodies, and the New York/New England Award-winning Ladder Music (from Alice James Books, 1997 and 2001, respectively), and This Sharpening (Tupelo Press, 2006). Her journal appearances include American Poetry Review, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares, and the New Yorker.

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Biography

Biography in Context
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Online Texts

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Internet Resources

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