Ann Victoria "A V." Christie (February 2, 1963 – April 7, 2016) was an American poet.
Life Ann Victoria Christie was born in Redwood City, California. She was raised in California's San Francisco Bay area as well as in Montana, and British Columbia. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland. She was a visiting writer and writer-in-residence at colleges along the Pennsylvania Main Line and regionally, including Villanova and La Salle universities; Bryn Mawr College; Goucher College in Baltimore; the University of Maryland, College Park; and Penn State Abington.
Her first poetry collection, Nine Skies, won the 1996 National Poetry Series prize. The poet Henri Cole described it as "hard-bitten, luxuriant and true," and the Philadelphia-area poet Eleanor Wilner called it "diamond-faceted, elliptical." W.S. DiPiero said of her 2014 collection The Wonders that "her poems invoke and respect strangeness and make strangeness feel near."
Her poems, reviews, and interviews appeared in AGNI,, bu.edu; accessed June 21, 2017. American Poetry Review, Poetry, Excerpt, Iowa Review, Commonweal, The Journal, Ploughshares,Author Details , pshares.org; accessed June 21, 2017. and Prairie Schooner.Project MUSE - Prairie Schooner - A Chemistry, and: Before Frost, jhu.edu; accessed June 21, 2017.
Her collection The Housing (2004) was co-winner of the Robert McGovern Publication Prize. The Wonders (2014), a chapbook-length poem and Editor's Selection, was published by Seven Kitchens Press. Her chapbook And I Began to Entertain Doubts was published in May 2016 by Folded Word Press.
Death Christie died of breast cancer in West Chester, Pennsylvania, aged 53."A.V. Christie, award-winning local poet, dies", philly.com, April 16, 2016; accessed June 21, 2017.
Awards 1997 National Poetry Series, for Nine Skies 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize co-winner, for The Housing National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowship Ludwig Vogelstein Fellowship
Works
The Housing. Ashland Poetry Press. 2004. The Wonders. Seven Kitchens Press. 2014.
Anthologies
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