Anya Krugovoy Silver Explained

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. 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, ^{[8] [9]}
• The Ninety-Third Name of God, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010., ^[10]
• I watched you disappear, Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 2014.,
• From Nothing, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2016., ^[11]
• Second bloom : poems, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017.,

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anya Krugovoy Silver. gf.org.
2. Web site: Historian's memoir wins Georgia Author of the Year Award. 2015-07-02. news.emory.edu. en. 2018-04-06.
3. Book: D. S. . Martin . The Turning Aside. 2016 . Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books . 212.
4. News: Roads Taken and Not Taken: Anya Krugovoy Silver '90. 2018-04-06. en.
5. News: English Professor Dr. Anya Silver Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Agenparl. 2018-04-06. Agenparl. 2018-04-06. it-IT.
6. News: Poems of witness. The Christian Century. 2018-04-06. en.
7. Web site: Anya Krugovoy Silver, Poetic Voice on Mortality, Dies at 49 . Sandomir . Richard . August 10, 2018 . . August 12, 2018.
8. Web site: Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler, 2015 National Book Award Longlist, Poetry. www.nationalbook.org. 2018-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20180407054137/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_p_gerstler.html. 2018-04-07. dead.
9. News: Scattered At Sea by Amy Gerstler. 2015-07-24. The Rumpus.net. 2018-04-06. en-US.
10. News: Poetry by C. D. Wright, Sarah Riggs and Others. Jennings. Dana. 2011-02-09. The New York Times. 2018-04-06. en-US. 0362-4331.
11. News: Poetry ex nihilo. The Christian Century. 2018-04-06. en.