Anne Boyer

Anne Boyer
Black and white portrait of Anne Boyer
Portrait of Anne Boyer
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Topeka, Kansas
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Anne Boyer (born 1973) is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers (2008),[1] The 2000s (2009),[2] My Common Heart (2011),[3] Garments Against Women (2015),[4] The Handbook of Disappointed Fate (2018),[5] and The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (2019).[6]

In 2016, she was a featured blogger at the Poetry Foundation, where she wrote an ongoing series of posts about her diagnosis and treatment for a highly aggressive form of breast cancer, as well as the lives and near deaths of poets.[7] Her essays about illness have appeared in Guernica, The New Inquiry, Fullstop, and more. Boyer teaches at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.[8]

Her poetry, essays, and books have been translated into numerous languages including Icelandic, Spanish, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Persian, and Swedish. With Guillermo Parra and Cassandra Gillig, she has translated the work of 20th century Venezuelan poets Victor Valera Mora, Miguel James, and Miyo Vestrini.

In 2020, Boyer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care.[9]

  1. ^ Boyer, Anne, 1973- (2008). The romance of happy workers : poetry. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. ISBN 9781566892148. OCLC 181730502.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "anneboyerthetwothousands | Poetry". Scribd. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  3. ^ Boyer, Anne. My Common Heart (PDF).
  4. ^ "Anne Boyer : The Poetry Foundation". www.poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  5. ^ Boyer, Anne, 1973- (2018). A handbook of disappointed fate (First ed.). Brooklyn, NY. ISBN 978-1937027926. OCLC 1024158306.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Boyer, Anne (2019). 'The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care'. New York City, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374279349. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  7. ^ Foundation, Poetry. "Tender Theory". Harriet: The Blog. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  8. ^ "St Andrews Faculty Page". Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  9. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".