Millicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese-American poet. She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation,[1] and Formby Special Collections at Texas Tech University for research on the writer/activist Key Boyle. Her full-length poetry collection Injuring Eternity is with World Nouveau (Mischievous Muse Press) , and a second collection, Only More So is forthcoming from (Salmon Poetry Ireland), spring 2012. She also has a chapbook, Woman on a Shaky Bridge with Finishing Line Press.
Her work has appeared in over 50 publications[2] including Nimrod, Tampa Review, New Letters and Wallace Stevens Journal as well as in Boomer Girls (Iowa Press) and Chopin with Cherries (Moonrise Press) anthologies.
Artist Residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar, Milkwood in Cesky Krumlov, CZ and the Portuguese writers conference Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal. Her theater and book reviews can be found in print and online at The Topanga Messenger.
She received degrees in English and literature from CSULB, holds a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and works as a freelance writer (technical writing and instructional design).
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Poetry Collections
Chapbooks
1997-98: National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry
2011: Canto Mundo Fellowship
2010: Formby Fellowship, Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2003: California Arts Council Grant for Poetry
2002: Barbara Deming Foundation
1998: Alden B. Dow Fellowship (unable to attend)
1992: Elizabethe Kempthorne Endowment for Creative Writing at USC
1991: State of California Pre-Doctoral Grant
PEN/America
Associated Writing Programs Associate
Portuguese-American Women's Association
Canto-Mundo
USC Alumni Association
Society for Technical Communication