ANNE CASTON

Literary Biographical Information

 

Anne Caston's first collection of poems, Flying Out With The Wounded, was awarded the 1996 New York University Press Prize for Poetry. In its review of the book, Publisher's Weekly (4/28) wrote that "...when she compresses an anecdote into verse, her poetry is as sharp – and sometimes as revealing –  as a scalpel." Anne's poems have been published in literary journals and periodicals here and abroad and her work has recently been anthologized in such collections as Where Books Fall Open, Sustenance & Desire, The Long Journey: Poets of the Northwest, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. She has twice been a featured writer on WPFW's "The Poet and the Poem" and was interviewed by Michael Collier in The Writing Life videotape series broadcast across a tri-state television area.

 

Anne's second collection of poems, Judah's Lion, was published in 2009 by Toad Hall Press. A selection of poems from Judah's Lion was awarded Prairie Schooner's 2002 Readers' Choice Award. Another poem in the collection received a 2003 International Merit Award in Poetry from Atlanta Review. 

 

Prodigal, Anne's third full-length collection, published in 2014, is available now from Aldrich Press and from Amazon.com.

 

Anne previously served as the 1996-97 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the 1999-2000 Jenny McKean Moore Fellow in Poetry at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. She also received a 1999 Individual Artist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Currently, Anne Caston teaches in the Low-Residency M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage where she serves as core faculty in poetry. She is at work now on a memoir, Deep Dixie: A Southerner's Take on Friendship, Love, Longing, Faith, Manners, and Coming-of-Age Among Southern Baptists. 

 

Anne and her husband, Ian Gallimore, live in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.