Emily Hiestand Explained

Emily Hiestand
Birth Place:	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education:	Philadelphia College of Art Boston University
Awards:	Whiting Award (1990)

Emily Hiestand (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.

Life

She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at Boston University, with George Starbuck.^[1]

She was an editor at Orion magazine and the Atlantic Monthly.^[2]

Her work appears in Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe Magazine, Bostonia, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New York Times, Orion, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Southeast Review, The Nation,^[3] The New Yorker.^{[4] [5]}

Awards

• 1988 National Poetry Series, for Green the Witch Hazel Wood, selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Jorie Graham
• 1988 The Nation/ Discovery Prize
• 1990 Whiting Award

Works

Essays

• The Constant Gardener. The Atlantic . March 2007.
• Real Places. The Atlantic. July–August 2001 .
• Book: The Very Rich Hours: Travels in Orkney, Belize, the Everglades and Greece . registration . 80 . Emily Hiestand poet. . Beacon Press. 1993. 978-0-8070-7117-5 .
• Book: Angela the Upside Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels . Beacon Press . 1998 . 978-0-8070-7128-1 .

Poetry

• Book: Green the Witch Hazel Wood . Graywolf Press. 1989. 1-55597-120-2 .

Anthologies

• Book: Nature writing: the tradition in English. registration. 959. Emily Hiestand poet.. Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah. Robert Finch . John Elder. W. W. Norton & Company. 2002. 978-0-393-04966-4 .
• Book: The best American poetry, 1990. Jorie Graham . David Lehman. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990. 978-0-684-19187-4.
• Book: Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry. Jim Elledge . Susan Swartwout. Indiana University Press. 1999. 978-0-253-33434-3.

Reviews

Emily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar.^[6]

External links

• Author's website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: BU Bridge Feature Article.
2. Web site: Poetry Reading by Emily Hiestand | College of the Holy Cross . 2009-09-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100607080149/http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/features/2003-2004/heistand . 2010-06-07 . dead .
3. Web site: The Nation Digital Archive 1865-2006. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060703113051/http://www.thenation.com/archive/search.mhtml. 2006-07-03.
4. Travel Slides. The New Yorker. 14 August 1995.
5. Web site: Emily Hiestand. 25 May 1994.
6. News: Books in Brief. Leslie Chess Feller. April 18, 1999. The New York Times.