Nancy Eimers
Nancy Eimers
Dr. Nancy Eimers
Professor
Creative Writing; Contemporary Poetry
Mailing address
Department of Engish
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5331
Office: (269) 387-2593
Location
711 Sprau
Education
Ph.D., English/Creative Writing, University of Houston (1988)
University of Arizona, M.F.A. (1982)
Indiana University, M.A. (1979)
Biography
Nancy Eimers is the author of four poetry collections: Oz (Carnegie Mellon, 2011), A Grammar to Waking (Carnegie Mellon, 2006), No Moon (Purdue Univ. Press, 1997) and Destroying Angel (Wesleyan Univ. Press , 1991).
Eimers has been the recipient of a Nation “Discovery” Award, a Whiting Writers Award, two NEA Fellowships, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Field, Paris Review, The Nation, Antioch Review, North American Review, Triquarterly, and Poetry Northwest, and in many anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Poets of the New Century, The Wesleyan Tradition, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women and The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. She and her husband have two orange cats, the most recent in a long line of memorable felines.