Angie Estes

Angie Estes is the author of four books, most recently Tryst (Oberlin College Press, 2009), which was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Her previous book, Chez Nous, also from Oberlin, appeared in 2005. Her second book, Voice-Over (Oberlin College Press, 2002), won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Uses of Passion (1995), was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. She is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.