A. V. Christie
{{short description|American poet (1963–2016)}}
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{{infobox writer
|name=A. V. Christie
|birth_name=Ann Victoria Christie
|birth_date={{birth date|1963|2|2}}
|birth_place=Redwood City, California, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2016|4|7|1963|2|2}}
|death_place=West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
|occupation=Poet
|education=Vassar College (AB)
University of Maryland, Baltimore (MFA)
}}
Ann Victoria "A V." Christie (February 2, 1963 – April 7, 2016) was an American poet.
Life
Ann Victoria Christie was born in Redwood City, California. She was raised in California's San Francisco Bay area as well as in Montana, and British Columbia. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland. She was a visiting writer and writer-in-residence at colleges along the Pennsylvania Main Line and regionally, including Villanova and La Salle universities; Bryn Mawr College; Goucher College in Baltimore; the University of Maryland, College Park; and Penn State Abington.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
Her first poetry collection, Nine Skies, won the 1996 National Poetry Series prize. The poet Henri Cole described it as "hard-bitten, luxuriant and true," and the Philadelphia-area poet Eleanor Wilner called it "diamond-faceted, elliptical." W.S. DiPiero said of her 2014 collection The Wonders that "her poems invoke and respect strangeness and make strangeness feel near."
Her poems, reviews, and interviews appeared in AGNI,[https://archive.today/20120722025551/http://web.bu.edu/agni/authors/A/A-V-Christie.html AGNI Online: Author A V Christie], bu.edu; accessed June 21, 2017. American Poetry Review, Poetry, Excerpt, Iowa Review, Commonweal, The Journal, Ploughshares,[http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1816 Author Details], pshares.org; accessed June 21, 2017. and Prairie Schooner.[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v079/79.4christie.html Project MUSE - Prairie Schooner - A Chemistry, and: Before Frost], jhu.edu; accessed June 21, 2017.
Her collection The Housing (2004) was co-winner of the Robert McGovern Publication Prize. The Wonders (2014), a chapbook-length poem and Editor's Selection, was published by Seven Kitchens Press. Her chapbook And I Began to Entertain Doubts was published in May 2016 by Folded Word Press.{{Cite web|url=https://foldedchaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/and-i-began-to-entertain-doubts/|title=And I Began to Entertain Doubts|last=Graustein|first=J. S.|date=2016-04-22|website=Folded Word Chapbooks|language=en|access-date=2019-03-16}}
Death
Christie died of breast cancer in West Chester, Pennsylvania, aged 53.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160611014901/http://articles.philly.com/2016-04-16/news/72354145_1_leonard-gontarek-eleanor-wilner-prairie-schooner "A.V. Christie, award-winning local poet, dies"], philly.com, April 16, 2016; accessed June 21, 2017.
Awards
- 1997 National Poetry Series, for Nine Skies
- 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize co-winner, for The Housing
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
- Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowship
- Ludwig Vogelstein Fellowship
Works
- {{cite book| title=Nine Skies| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fvMgEQwEA7cC&q=A+V.+Christie+poet&pg=PT1| publisher=University of Illinois Press| year=1997| isbn=978-0-252-06644-3 }}
- The Housing. Ashland Poetry Press. 2004.
- The Wonders. Seven Kitchens Press. 2014.
- {{cite book| title=And I Began to Entertain Doubts| publisher=Folded Word Press| year=2016| isbn=978-1-610-19601-7 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=The New American Poets| url=https://archive.org/details/newamericanpoets00mich| url-access=registration| editor=Michael Collier| publisher=University Press of New England| year=2000 }}
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Category:20th-century American poets
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:Vassar College alumni
Category:People from Redwood City, California