Ann Agnes Colwell

 

Anne Agnes Colwell, a poet and fiction writer, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware.  Her work has appeared in several journals, including:  California Quarterly, Mudlark, Evansville Review, Phoebe, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern Poetry Review, Stickman Review, Poetry Bay, and Octavo.  An online chapbook of her poems appears in The Alsop Review.  Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and the Quarterly Review of Literature.  Her critical book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997.  She received an Established Artist Award in Poetry and an Emerging Artist Award in Fiction from the Delaware State Arts Council. She lives in Milton, Delaware with her husband James Keegan and son, Thomas