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Anita Endrezze
Anita Endrezze is a writer, poet, teacher, and artist.
Her most recent book, a short story collection called “Butterfly Moon”, was published by U of AZ Press in 2012.
She also has a new chapbook of poems, “Breaking Edges”, from Red Bird Press in January 2012. In 2014, Red Bird published a collection of poems and art titled "A Thousand Branches".
Her previous publications include: “Throwing fire at the Sun, water at the Moon” (University of Arizona Press, 2000), “at the helm of twilight” (Broken Moon Press, 1992), “Bjerget og Skystaanden” (CD-Forlag, 1986), “Lune d’Ambre” (Rougerie, 1991), and three other books. Her work has been translated into ten languages (Farsi, Danish, French, German, Macedonian, and Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Catalonian, and Spanish).
A recent broadside from Red Bird Press featured her poem “K.I.A”, along with artist James Autio.
Education:
She has a Master of Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, a B.A. in English, with an emphasis on Secondary Education. She’s taught high school, college, university and in the Poets in the Schools.
Awards:
She’s won the Washington State Writers Award, the Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award, an Artist Trust Gap Award, and 1st place in the Washington Poetry Society Contest. She was a two-year appointee for the Washington State Humanities Commission in their Inquiring Mind Speaker series.
Her writing appears in dozens of anthologies, such as “Carriers of the Dream Wheel”, “Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry”, “Reinventing the Enemy’s Language”, “Talking Leaves”, “Blue Dawn, Red Earth”, and “Earth Song, Sky Spirit”. A book of autobiographical essays, “Here First”, includes the author. Her work is also in many literary magazines.
As an artist, she’s had some of her paintings on book covers, such as the Harper’s Anthology, as well as illustrating her own books. She’s had exhibitions in England, Wales, and the US.
She speaks some Danish and Spanish but is a native English speaker. Anita is half-Yaqui Indian, Slovenian, north Italian, German-Swiss.
Anita Endrezze is a writer, poet, teacher, and artist.
Her most recent book, a short story collection called “Butterfly Moon”, was published by U of AZ Press in 2012.
She also has a new chapbook of poems, “Breaking Edges”, from Red Bird Press in January 2012. In 2014, Red Bird published a collection of poems and art titled "A Thousand Branches".
Her previous publications include: “Throwing fire at the Sun, water at the Moon” (University of Arizona Press, 2000), “at the helm of twilight” (Broken Moon Press, 1992), “Bjerget og Skystaanden” (CD-Forlag, 1986), “Lune d’Ambre” (Rougerie, 1991), and three other books. Her work has been translated into ten languages (Farsi, Danish, French, German, Macedonian, and Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Catalonian, and Spanish).
A recent broadside from Red Bird Press featured her poem “K.I.A”, along with artist James Autio.
Education:
She has a Master of Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, a B.A. in English, with an emphasis on Secondary Education. She’s taught high school, college, university and in the Poets in the Schools.
Awards:
She’s won the Washington State Writers Award, the Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award, an Artist Trust Gap Award, and 1st place in the Washington Poetry Society Contest. She was a two-year appointee for the Washington State Humanities Commission in their Inquiring Mind Speaker series.
Her writing appears in dozens of anthologies, such as “Carriers of the Dream Wheel”, “Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry”, “Reinventing the Enemy’s Language”, “Talking Leaves”, “Blue Dawn, Red Earth”, and “Earth Song, Sky Spirit”. A book of autobiographical essays, “Here First”, includes the author. Her work is also in many literary magazines.
As an artist, she’s had some of her paintings on book covers, such as the Harper’s Anthology, as well as illustrating her own books. She’s had exhibitions in England, Wales, and the US.
She speaks some Danish and Spanish but is a native English speaker. Anita is half-Yaqui Indian, Slovenian, north Italian, German-Swiss.
