Jessica Fisher
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Jessica Fisher (born March 12, 1976, in Claremont, California) is an American poet, translator, and critic. In 2012, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aarome.org/news/features/2012-13-rome-prize-winners-announced|title=2012–13 Rome Prize Winners Announced | American Academy in Rome|date=26 April 2012 }}
Her first book, Frail-Craft, won the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/bibliolatry/blogs/post?oid=648748 |title=Northern California Book Award nominations - Bibliolatry - April 6, 2008 - Blogs - Sacramento News & Review |website=www.newsreview.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215084031/http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/bibliolatry/blogs/post?oid=648748 |archive-date=2019-12-15}} Her second book, Inmost, won the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Life
Her poems and translations appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review,{{Cite web |url=http://www.aprweb.org/issue/marchapril-2010 |title=March/April 2010 | the American Poetry Review |access-date=2012-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106232059/http://www.aprweb.org/issue/marchapril-2010 |archive-date=2012-01-06 |url-status=dead }} At Length,{{Cite web|url=http://atlengthmag.com/poetry/defect/|title = At Length » Defect}} The Believer,{{Cite web|url=http://www.believermag.com/contributors/?read=fisher,+jessica|title = Contributors| date=2 October 2023 }} the Colorado Review,{{Cite web|url=http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-review/|title = Colorado Review - Center for Literary Publishing | Colorado State University}} McSweeney's, The New Yorker,[https://web.archive.org/web/20080307162813/http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/01/08/070108po_poem_fisher] "The Right to Pleasure" The New York Review of Books,http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/dec/20/forget/ "Forget" The Paris Review,{{Cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/186|title=Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists}} The Threepenny Review,{{Cite web|url=http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/109_sp07.html|title = Threepenny: Issue 109, Spring 2007}} and TriQuarterly.http://triquarterly.org With Robert Hass, she co-edited The Addison Street Anthology; this book serves as a guide to the Berkeley Poetry Walk,{{Cite web|url=http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/01/12_poetry.shtml|title = 01.12.2005 - Concrete imagery}} which was named a National Poetry Landmark by the Academy of American Poets.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5759|title = The Poetry Walk in Berkeley, CA | Academy of American Poets}}
She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was the Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics from 2009 to 2011.
She is the daughter of Ann Fisher-Wirth.
Awards
- The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, awarded by the American Academy in Arts and Letters, 2012-2013
- Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, 2011
- Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetry and Poetics, University of California at Berkeley, 2009-2011
- Northern California Book Award, finalist, 2008
- Yale Younger Poets Prize, 2006
- Djerassi Residency Fellowship, 2005{{cite web |url=http://www.djerassi.org/artists.html |title=1999 Djerassi Artists |website=www.djerassi.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229225710/http://www.djerassi.org/artists.html |archive-date=2000-02-29}}
- Eisner Award in Poetry, 2000 and 2002{{Cite web |url=http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/undergraduates/poeteisnerprize.htm |title=UC Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships Office: Undergraduates » Types of Aid » Prizes and Honors » Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prizes in Poetry and Prose |access-date=2012-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026115122/http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/undergraduates/poeteisnerprize.htm |archive-date=2012-10-26 |url-status=dead }}
Books
=Poetry=
- {{cite book |title=Frail-Craft |last=Fisher |first=Jessica |year=2007 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-12235-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300122350 |url-access=registration }}
- {{cite book |title=Inmost |last=Fisher |first=Jessica |year=2012 |publisher= Nightboat Books |isbn= 978-1-937658-00-7 |url=http://www.nightboat.org/title/inmost}}
=Edited=
- {{cite book |editor-first=Jessica |editor-last=Fisher |editor2-first=Robert |editor2-last=Hass |title=The Addison Street Anthology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsVctDpFH6IC&q=Jessica+Fisher+poet |publisher=Heyday Books |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-890771-94-2}}
=Translations=
- The Paris Review, "[http://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/186 The Swallow's Testicles]," a translation of a poem by Hans Arp
- The New York Review of Books, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/dec/20/forget/ "Forget"], a translation of a poem by Czeslaw Milosz
Reviews
- [https://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2007/04/09/070409crbn_brieflynoted8 The New Yorker], Ligaya Mishan
- [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6446870.html?q=Reasons+to+Believe%3A+How+to+Understand%2C+Explain%2C+and+Defend+the+Catholic+Faith Library Journal]
- [https://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.4/microreviews.php Boston Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218205743/http://bostonreview.net/BR33.4/microreviews.php |date=2013-02-18 }}, Amelia Klein
- [http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2008-fall/selections/on-louise-gluck-and-the-yale-series-of-younger-poets/ Kenyon Review], Meghan O'Rourke
- [http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/text_detail.php?text_id=1974l The Missouri Review]{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Chad Parmenter
- [http://therumpus.net/2012/05/eyes-open-to-the-shifting-sky/ The Rumpus], T Fleischmann
References
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External links
- [http://www.nightboat.org/title/inmost Fisher's page at Nightboat Books]
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Category:Swarthmore College alumni
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Category:21st-century American poets