Nadia Colburn

Poet

Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts US
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Author's Bio

Nadia Colburn has published poetry and prose in over eighty national publications including The New Yorker, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Yale Review, Slate.com, Yes! Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, The Denver Quarterly, American Scholar, The Harvard Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Literary Imagination, LARB, HEart and many other places. She's the author of the poetry book The High Shelf (Word Works 2019). She holds a PhD in English from Columbia and a BA from Harvard and has taught at MIT, Lesley, Stonehill College and in workshops around New England. A founding Editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet, Nadia is interested in the intersection of personal and social transformation, and the role of art in the process of change. A student of Thich Nhat Hanh and a yoga teacher, Nadia also is a passionate activist for the environment and social justice and the founder of Align Your Story teaching and coaching. She lives in Cambridge MA with her husband and two children. See more and get free meditations for writers and other resources for writers at https://nadiacolburn.com/

 

 

 

Publications & Prizes

Book:
The High Shelf (Word Works, 2019)
Prizes won: 

Pen/New England Discovery Award, Mellon Fellowship, Javits Fellowship

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Last update: Jan 30, 2020