{{short description|American poet|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Debra Allbery | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|3|3}} | birth_place = Lancaster, Ohio, U.S. | notable_works = ''Walking Distance'' | citizenship= American | awards = Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (1990) | occupation = Poet }} '''Debra Allbery''' (born March 3, 1957, in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet.<ref>''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.</ref>

==Life== Allbery is an Ohio native,<ref name="pshares.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1794|title = Issues &#124; Ploughshares}}</ref> though she currently lives in Fairview, North Carolina.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/debra_allbery_1|title = Debra Allbery| date=13 November 1981 }}</ref> She has graduated from the College of Wooster, the University of Virginia, and the University of Iowa, has taught at Dickinson College, Randolph College, the University of Michigan,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-2008/performers/poets/debra-allbery/ |title=Debra Allbery : Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program |access-date=2009-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005075106/http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-2008/performers/poets/debra-allbery/ |archive-date=2008-10-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was the Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College from 2009 to 2023, where she has served on the poetry faculty since 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.friendsofwriters.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23:meet-debra-allbery-the-new-director-of-the-mfa-program-for-writers&catid=1:news-feature-articles-a-interviews&Itemid=8|title=Friends of Writers}}</ref>

Her work has appeared in ''Crazy Horse'', ''The Missouri Review'',<ref>{{Cite journal | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RDGxAAAAIAAJ&q=Debra+Allbery+winter | title = The Missouri review | last1 = Of English | first1 = University of Missouri--Columbia. Dept | year = 1982}}</ref> ''Ironwood'', ''Iowa Review'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/back_issues/34.1/34.1.html |title=The Iowa Review: Spring 2004 |access-date=2009-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709234634/http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/back_issues/34.1/34.1.html |archive-date=2009-07-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Poetry'', ''Ploughshares'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=28|title=Read by Author &#124; Ploughshares}}</ref> ''TriQuarterly'',<ref name="pshares.org" /> ''The Kenyon Review'', and ''The Yale Review'', and she is among the poets included in ''The Broadview Anthology of Poetry'', edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones.

==Awards== * 1990 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for ''Walking Distance'' * 1994 Sherwood Anderson Fellowship * Two NEA fellowships * 1989 "Discovery"/The Nation prize * 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry

==Works==

===Poetry=== * {{cite book| title=Walking Distance| url=https://archive.org/details/walkingdistance0000allb| url-access=registration| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=1991| isbn=978-0-8229-3687-9 }} * {{cite book| title=Fimbul-Winter| publisher=Four Way Books| year=2010| isbn=978-1-9355-3604-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/fimbulwinter0000allb}}

===Essays=== * {{cite journal | title="The Third Image": Constellations of Correspondence in Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Simic | url=http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/08/spring/index.html | journal=The Cortland Review | date=Spring 2008 | access-date=2009-07-09 | archive-date=2009-03-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317044003/http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/08/spring/index.html | url-status=dead }}

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