Sandra Alcosser (2007)
Sandra Alcosser is the National Endowment for the Arts Conservation Poet for the Wildlife Conservation Society and Poets House, New York. Montana's first poet laureate and 2006 recipient of the Merriam Award for Distinguished Contribution to Montana Literature , she founded and directs the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University each fall, as well as SDSU's International Writers' Summer Program at National University of Ireland, Galway.
Her most recent book of poems, Except by Nature, selected for the National Poetry Series, received four national awards including the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award. James Tate selected A Fish to Feed All Hunger to be the Associated Writing Programs Award Series winner in poetry. Her poems have appeared The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
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