Angela Sorby (born 1965) is an American poet, professor, and literary scholar.
Biography Angela Sorby was born in Seattle, Washington. In 2024 she teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature.Marquette University Faculty Page, Sorby, retrieved 2024-05-14. She is particularly interested in how poetry engages with children and childhood.
Selected works Distance Learning (New Issues Press, 1998); Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry (University Press of New England, 2005) Bird Skin Coat (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).ABE Books website, Sorby, Angela Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 Johns Hopkins University Press website, Over the River and Through the Wood The Sleeve Waves (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 University of Wisconsin Press website, The Sleeve Waves
Literary awards
Felix Pollak Prize (2014) Wisconsin Academy website, Angela Sorby John Fiske Poetry Prize, University of Chicago Midwest Book Award Plume Poetry website, Sorby, Angela Brittingham Prize in Poetry Lorine Niedecker Award Fulbright fellowship Honor Book Prize from the Children's Literature Association (2005) Children's Literature Association, Book Award Discovery/The Nation Prize Lorine Niedecker PrizeVerse Wisconsin website, Issue 110: Three Poems
References
External links Marquette University Faculty Page Poets & Writers Directory › Angela Sorby The University of Wisconsin Press › Bird Skin Coat The Snow-Woman by Angela Sorby Oxford Journals › When Poets Ruled the School