will wells

Poet

Lima, OH
Ohio US
Email: 
wells.w@rhodesstate.edu

Author's Bio

Both my poetry collections have won national awards. I also have a volume of translations published by Univ. of CA PRess. My current manuscript, "Odd Lots, Scraps, and Second-Hand Like New" is complete and under consideration at several presses.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Unsettled Accounts (Ohio University Press / Swallow Press, 2010)
Prizes won: 

Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, 2009
Walter E. Dakin Fellowship/Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2010
Ohio Poet of the Year, 2010
Anhinga Prize in Poetry

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
Italian
Born in: 
Akron
Raised in: 
Akron, OH
Ohio
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Last update: Mar 28, 2016