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Marilyn
Nelson
is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks. Her
book The
Homeplace won the 1992
Annisfield-Wolf Award and was a
finalist for the 1991 National Book Award. The Fields Of Praise: New
And Selected Poems won the
1998 Poets' Prize and was a finalist for the
1997 National Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, and the Lenore
Marshall Prize. Carver: A Life In
Poems
won the 2001 Boston
Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and was a
finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, a Newbery Honor Book, and a
Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Fortune's
Bones
was a Coretta Scott King
Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in
North American Poetry. A Wreath For
Emmett Till
won the 2005 Boston
Globe—Horn Book Award and was a 2006 Coretta Scott King Honor
Book, a 2006 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and a 2006 Lee Bennett
Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book. The
Cachoeira Tales And
Other Poems
won the L.E. Phillabaum Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles
Times Book Award. Her honors include two NEA creative writing
fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, an A.C.L.S. Contemplative
Practices Fellowship, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, three honorary
doctorates, and a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. Nelson is a professor
emerita of English at the University
of Connecticut; founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small
writers' colony; and the former (2001—2006) Poet Laureate of
the
State of Connecticut. Marilyn Nelson at Blue Flower Arts
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