Betsy Sholl

Betsy Sholl
Born1945 (age 78–79)
NationalityAmerican
Education
GenrePoetry
Notable works
  • The Red Line
  • Don't Explain
  • Otherwise Unseeable
Notable awards
Website
betsysholl.com

Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl (born 1945)[1] is an American poet who was poet laureate of Maine from 2006 to 2011 and has authored nine collections of poetry.[2] Sholl has received several poetry awards, including the 1991 AWP Award, and the 2015 Maine Literary Award, as well as receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission.

Sholl's poetry has been published in anthologies and in literary journals including Orion Magazine, Field, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Ploughshares.

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