Anya Krugovoy Silver (December 22, 1968 – August 6, 2018) was an American poet. She won a Guggenheim fellowship, ^[1] and a Georgia Author of the Year Award. ^[2]

Biography

Silver was born in 1968 ^[3] in Media, Pennsylvania, but raised in Swarthmore, and graduated from Haverford College, ^[4] and Emory University. ^[2] She then became a professor at Mercer University. ^[5] Her work has appeared in The Christian Century, among other publications. ^[6]

In 2004, Silver was pregnant and teaching at Mercer University when she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer. She gave birth to son Noah and had a mastectomy. The cancer remained, and her coping with it, along with her son and husband, intensified her poetry.

Silver died at age 49 in Macon, Georgia, on August 6, 2018. ^[7]

Works

• ''Scattered at Sea'', Penguin/Penguin Random House, ISBN  9780143126898 ^{[8] [9]}
• The Ninety-Third Name of God, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN  9780807136904, OCLC  695838872 ^[10]
• I watched you disappear, Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN  9780807153048, OCLC  908740255
• From Nothing, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ISBN  9780807163467, OCLC  940795255 ^[11]
• Second bloom : poems, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. ISBN  9781532630071, OCLC  1001883912

References

External links

• Official website
• Anya Silver page and poem at the Academy of American Poets
• Interview with Anya Krugovoy Silver

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