Leslie Ullman

Poet

Arroyo Seco, NM
New Mexico US
Email: 
lullman@utep.edu
Website: 
leslieullman.com

Author's Bio

I teach in the low-residency program at VCFA. Have published four poetry collections and a hybrid book of craft essays, poems, and writing exercises, Library of Small Happiness (2017). I live in Taos, NM. Recent collection Progress on the Subject of Immensity.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The You That All Along Has Housed You: A Sequence (Nine Mile Press, 2019)
,
Library of Small Happiness (3: A Taos Press, 2017)
,
Progress on the Subject of Immensity (University of New Mexico Press, 2013)
,
Slow Work Through Sand (University of Iowa Press, 1998)
,
Dreams By No One's Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987)
,
Natural Histories (Yale University Press, 1979)
Journals:
Bloomsbury Review
,
Kenyon Review
,
Poetry
Prizes won: 

Yale Series of Younger Poets Iowa Poetry Prize Two NEA Fellowships New Mexico/Arizona Book Award in poetry. Residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation and Hedgebrook.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel, Voluntary Servitude by Mark Wunderlich, Seam by Tarfia Faizullah, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble, Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Chicago
Raised in: 
Winnetka, IL
Illinois
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Last update: May 03, 2019