Debora Greger

{{Short description|American poet and artist (born 1949)}}

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Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist.

She was raised in Richland, Washington.

She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida until retiring.{{cite web | title=Debora Greger | website=Department of English – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | date=March 11, 2018 | url=https://english.ufl.edu/debora-greger/ | access-date=December 5, 2021}}> She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art.

Her poetry has been included in six volumes of The Best American Poetry and she has exhibited her artwork at several galleries and museums across the country. She also has a poem on Poetry 180 in number 42.{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/poetry-180-042/the-poetry-of-bad-weather/|title=The Poetry of Bad Weather|website=Library of Congress|accessdate=December 5, 2021}}

Her work appeared in Paris Review, The Nation,{{Cite web|url=http://www.thenation.com/node/22875|title = Debora Greger|date = April 14, 2010}} Poetry,{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=28088|title = Psyche and Eros in Florida by Debora Greger|date = July 23, 2021}} and The New Criterion.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/eve-in-the-fall-3809|title = Eve in the fall by Debora Greger}}

She lives in Gainesville, Florida{{cite web|title=Debora Greger: The muse|url=http://www.gainesville.com/news/20080505/debora-greger-the-muse|work=Gainesville.com|accessdate= July 27, 2016}} and Cambridge, England with her life-partner, the poet and critic, William Logan.