Laurel Trivelpiece Explained

Laurel Trivelpiece (1926, Nebraska – 1998)^[1] was an American poet and novelist.

Life

Trivelpiece worked in her youth as fruit-picker and later, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English Literature, as an editor and copy-writer for Macys and other department stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lived in Corte Madera, California.^[2]

Trivelpiece authored two poetry collections, four young adult novels, one adult novel, and prize-winning fiction and plays. Her second poetry collection, Blue Holes (Alice James Books, 1987), won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and one of her poems was included in Best American Poetry 1995. Her poems also appeared in literary journals and magazines including Poetry,^{[3] [4]} The Massachusetts Review,^[5] The American Poetry Review,^[6] and The Malahat Review.^[7]

Her short story Gentle Constancy (Denver Quarterly, Fall) was acknowledged in the Distinctive Short Stories, 1970 list in The Best American Short Stories, 1971. Houghton Mifflin Co. .

Awards

• 1987 Beatrice Hawley Award

Published works

Poetry Collections

• Book: Blue Holes. Alice James Books. 1987. 978-0-914086-74-1.
• Book: Legless in flight. Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd.. 1978. 978-0-913506-05-9 .

Young Adult Novels

• Book: Just a Little Bit Lost. Scholastic. 1988. 978-0-590-41465-4.
• Book: Trying Not to Love You. Pocket Books. 1985. 978-0-671-54394-5 .
• Book: In Love and in Trouble. Schuster Merchandise . 1984. 978-0-671-50443-4 .
• Book: During Water Peaches. Lippincott. 1979. 978-0-397-31831-5 .

Adult Novels

• Book: Triad (as Hannah K. Marks) . Pocket Books. 1980. 978-0-671-82724-3 .

Anthology Publications

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=MY3IC7Z4HgUC&pg=PT1. Nursery. The Best American Poetry 1995. Richard Howard . David Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 1995. 978-0-684-80151-3 .

External links

• Alice James Books > Poems by Laurel Trivelpiece
• Review: Virginia Quarterly Review > Issues > Autumn 1978 > pp.127-148 > Recent Books > Legless in Flight by Laurel Trivelpiece

Notes and References

1. Web site: Crime Fiction IV - Allen J. Hubin. 3 April 2016.
2. http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/blue_holes.html Alice James Books > Author Page > Laurel Trivelpiece
3. Web site: August 1992 : Poetry Magazine. 3 April 2016.
4. Web site: Poetry magazine : Published by the Poetry Foundation. 3 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20100714091512/http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/t3.html. 14 July 2010. dead.
5. http://www.massreview.org/07_arch_80_TOC%20.html The Massachusetts Review > Table of Contents 1980 - 1989 > Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring, 1980
6. http://www.aprweb.org/issue/januaryfebruary-1976 The American Poetry Review> January/February 1976 > Vol. 5 No. 1 - Online Edition > Contributors
7. Web site: BOOKS, antiquarian, used, old, remainders. 3 April 2016.