Welcome to Anne’s Pages

Books:
Anne Caston’s first collection of poems, Flying Out With The Wounded, was awarded the 1996 New York University Press Prize for Poetry. Her second collection of poetry, Judah’s Lion, is being published by Toad Hall Press. Anne is at work now on a new collection, The Empress of Longing and a memoir, Deep Dixie: A Southerner’s Take on Life, Love, Friendship, Romance, Faith, and Coming-of-Age among Southern Baptists.

Book orders: Flying Out with The Wounded: New York University Press
Judah’s Lion: available for early orders: April 2009

(For book orders or readings, please direct your inquiries to:
Janna Rademacher, publicist, at 651-592-1688
or janna.rademacher@comcast.com )

Literary Bio:
Anne is a former nurse, a writer, and an educator whose work has been published in literary and medical journals here and abroad. She has recently been a featured writer for “The Poet and the Poem,” interviewed by Grace Cavalieri, sponsored by the Library of Congress. Anne was interviewed by Michael Collier for The Writer’s Life video series, broadcast over a tri-state television area (D.C., Maryland, and Virginia). Her work has recently been anthologized in collections such as The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Where Books Fall Open, Sustenance & Desire, and Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets.

Honors & Awards:
In 1999, Anne received an Individual Artist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and was the 1996-97 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was also the 1998-99 Jenny McKean Moore Fellow in Poetry at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. and a Bread Loaf Fellow in 1998.
Anne has received two Excellence in Teaching Awards from the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she taught for 6 years before moving to Anchorage and assuming administrative and teaching duties in the Low-Residency M.F.A. Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2005.
Selected poems from Judah’s Lion were awarded Prairie Schooner’s 2002 Readers’ Choice Award and her poem, “Purgatory,” received a 2003 International Merit Award in Poetry from Atlanta Review. Anne was also one of two American poets and three Canadian poets featured in the Cross-Border Pollination Reading Series in Vancouver, B.C.

Education:
Anne Caston earned a B.A. in Language and Literature from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1993 and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1995.

Employment:
Anne Caston is Associate Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Alaska Anchorage where she is a core faculty member in poetry - http://cwla.uaa.alaska.edu .