Emily Hiestand
Introduction '''Emily Hiestand''' (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.
Life She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer. She studied at Boston University, with George Starbuck.She was an editor at ''Orion magazine'' and the ''Atlantic Monthly''.Her work appears in ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Boston Globe Magazine'', ''Bostonia'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Hudson Review'', ''Michigan Quarterly Review'', ''New York Times'', ''Orion'', ''Partisan Review'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Southeast Review'', ''The Nation'', ''The New Yorker''.
Awards * 1988 National Poetry Series, for ''Green the Witch Hazel Wood'', selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Jorie Graham* 1988 ''The Nation''/ Discovery Prize* 1990 Whiting Award
Works === Essays ===*** * ===Poetry===* ===Anthologies===** *
Reviews Emily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar.
References
External links * Author's website* Profile at The Whiting Foundation