Maggie Anderson

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Maggie Anderson (b. 1948) is an American poet.

Born September 23 in New York City, she attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and West Virginia University, where she earned graduate degrees in English (1973) and in social work (1977).

Anderson, with family roots in West Virginia, is best known as a poet of and an advocate for Appalachia. She was the editor and co-founder of Trellis: A Magazine of Poetry and Poetics (Morgantown: The Trellis Press Association, 1971-81.) In the 1980s she re-established the literary reputation of Appalachian poet Louise McNeill when she edited and wrote the introduction for McNeill's memoir The Milkweed Ladies, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Anderson later edited McNeill's Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems, also for Pitt.

Maggie Anderson has won fellowships for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony, and the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Commission. She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Oregon. Currently she is professor of English at Kent State University, where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press.

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Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School, co-editor, poetry (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002)
Windfall: New and Selected Poems, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000)
A Space Filled with Moving, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992)
A Gathering of Poets, co-editor, poetry (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1992)
Cold Comfort, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987)
Years that Answer, poetry (New York: Harper & Row, 1980)
The Great Horned Owl, poetry (Riderwood: Icarus Press, 1979)