B I O
Deborah Woodard was born in New York City and grew up in Vermont. She holds a BA from SUNY Buffalo. After completing her undergraduate education, she went to Italy, where she spent time in northern Italy, in Florence, as well as in the little seaside town of Scilla in the south of Italy. Back in the States, she was one of the first three students admitted to the MA in Creative Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire, where she studied with Charles Simic. She went on to earn an MFA degree at the University of California, Irvine, where she studied with, among others, Howard Moss, C.K. Williams, and Charles Wright. Deborah taught Creative Writing and Composition for five years at California State University, Chico. Thereafter she relocated to Seattle and completed her
doctorate in English at the University of Washington, writing her dissertation on American women lyric poets and the romance plot.
Deborah's poetry and translations have appeared in
Action, Yes!, Artful Dodge, Bellingham Review, Chelsea, Monkey Puzzle, and
The Threepenny Review. She has published two
chapbooks of poetry:
The Orphan Conducts the Dovehouse Orchestra (Bear Star Press, 1999) and
The Book of Riddles (Boxcar Press, 1998). Her first full-length collection,
Plato's Bad Horse, was published in 2006 (Bear Star Press).
