Ellen Bass's most recent book of poetry, The Human Line (Copper Canyon, 2007), was named a Notable Book of 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Mules of Love (BOA, 2002) won the Lambda Literary Award. Journal publication credits include The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Field, and The Kenyon Review. Among her awards for poetry are a Pushcart Prize, the Elliston Book Award, The Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod/Hardman, the Larry Levis Prize from Missouri Review, the New Letters Prize, the Greensboro Award, the Chautaqua Poetry Prize, a Fellowship from the California Arts Council and a Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
She has also written nonfiction books for gay, lesbian and bisexual youth and women survivors of child sexual abuse She teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
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