Sandra Simonds is an American poet and critic. The author of seven books of poetry, her poems have been included in Best American Poetry and have appeared in literary journals including Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Boston Review, and Fence. In 2013, she won a Readers’ Choice Award for her sonnet “Red Wand.” Her poetry reviews have been featured on the Poetry Foundation Website, the New York Times, the Harvard Review and the Kenyon Review. Simonds earned her Ph.D. in English and Poetry from Florida State University. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is an associate professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia. Honors and awards Akron Poetry Prize, 2015 Best American Poetry 2015 Best American Poetry 2014 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition Prize 2012 Books Atopia (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) Orlando (Wave Books, 2018) Further Problems with Pleasure (University of Akron Press, 2017) Steal It Back (Saturnalia Books, 2015) The Sonnets (Bloof Books, 2014) Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012) Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) Criticism A Poet Whose Calling Is Doubt Celebrates Language’s Uncertainty. Review of Heather McHugh, June, 2020. In *Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings. Review of Four Poets. May, 2020. Review of Ariana Reines's A Sand Book. Jan, 2020. Riot Girl: Chelsey Minnis’s Unladylike Poetry. April, 2019. References Further reading Turner, Lindsey. "Impossible Epic: On Sandra Simonds's "Orlando"" Los Angeles Review of Books, Dec 3 2018. External links April. The New Yorker, 2019 I Love Wine. The New York Times, 2017 "Poetry is Stupid and I Want to Die" American Poetry Review, 2017 "Red Wand" Academy of American Poets website, 2013 "Lines Written on Nursery Wall" Poetry, 2010 Poetry Foundation website Academy of American Poets website Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Thomas University faculty American women poets Poets from Florida Florida State University alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni American women academics 21st-century American women