Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s eighth book is Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, a poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert, with facing-page translations into Spanish by the Women in Translation group. Her seventh book is Paradise Is Jagged and her fifth, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, is Mississippi. With Laura-Gray Street, Fisher-Wirth coedited The Ecopoetry Anthology and the recently published Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, Fisher-Wirth has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, and residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, Storyknife, and elsewhere. She will go to Turkey to lecture on American ecopoetry as a Fulbright Specialist in April 2025. Her awards and prizes include three poetry fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for poetry, and the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. Fisher-Wirth retired in 2022 from the University of Mississippi, where she taught and directed the environmental studies program.
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s eighth book is Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, a poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert, with facing-page translations into Spanish by the Women in Translation group. Her seventh book is Paradise Is Jagged and her fifth, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, is Mississippi. With Laura-Gray Street, Fisher-Wirth coedited The Ecopoetry Anthology and the recently published Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, Fisher-Wirth has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, and residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, Storyknife, and elsewhere. She will go to Turkey to lecture on American ecopoetry as a Fulbright Specialist in April 2025. Her awards and prizes include three poetry fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for poetry, and the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. Fisher-Wirth retired in 2022 from the University of Mississippi, where she taught and directed the environmental studies program.
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