Ginny Lowe Connors

Poet

West Hartford, CT
Connecticut US

Author's Bio

Ginny Lowe Connors is the author or editor of numerous poetry collections. Her book White Sail at Midnight is forthcoming in the fall of 2024 from The Poetry Box. Among her awards are the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, Atlanta Review’s Grand Prize, and the Founders Award, sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. She was named “Poet of the Year” by NEATE (New England Association of Teachers of English). In 2018 she was named the winner of Passager’s annual Poetry Contest.  In 2023 she was Writer in Residence at Trail Wood, former home of naturalist Edwin Way Teale. She holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. As publisher of her own press, Grayson Books, Connors has edited a number of poetry anthologies, including Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry. A Board Member of the Connecticut Poetry Society, she is co-editor of Connecticut River Review.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Without Goodbyes: From Puritan Deerfield to Mohawk Kahnawake (Turning Point, 2022)
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Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry (editor) (Grayson Books, 2017)
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Laureates of Connecticut: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (editor with Charles Margolis) (Grayson Books, 2017)
,
Toward the Hanging Tree (Antrim House Books, 2016)
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The Unparalleled Beauty of a Crooked Line (Antrim House Books, 2012)
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Barbarians in the Kitchen (Antrim House Books, 2005)
,
Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage (editor) (Grayson Books, 2003)
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Essential Love: Poems About Mothers & Fathers, Daughters & Sons (editor) (Grayson Books, 1999)
Chapbook:
Under the Porch (Hill-Stead Museum, 2010)
Prizes won: 

Heart Poetry Award, Nostalgia Press, 2021

Passager Poetry Contest, 2018

Artist's Choice Award, Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, 2018

Editor's Choice Award, Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, 2016

NFSPS Founder's Award, 2013

NFSPS Winner's Circle Award, 2011

Hill-Stead Museum's Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, 2010

NFSPS All Poets Award, 2007

Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, 2001

Walter Winchell Poetry Contest, 2001

 

 

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
too many to list

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
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Last update: Aug 23, 2024