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Dorothy Englander Anthologies that feature my work:When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over 50 Beloved on the Earth Eating Her Wedding Dress Not a Muse Come Together: Imagine Peace From the Other World (James Wright Memorial) Family Photos Love Over 60 Love After 70 Kentucky Quilt Trails Poems of Birth Susan B & Me Liaisons II New Southerner 2006 In the Eye Once a Garden Diner Annual Anthology Coal: An Anthology 2007 Capital BookFest Vacations: The good, the bad, the ugly Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there |
About Me: Christina Lovin is the author of volume of poetry (A Stirring in the Dark, Old Seventy Creek Press) and two chapbooks of poetry: What We Burned for Warmth and Little Fires, #55 in the New Women’s Voices Poetry Series (both, Finishing Line Press). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, The Lyric, Harvard Summer Review, Diner, Hunger Mountain, Entelechy International, Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn’t there, Susan B & Me, and many other journals and anthologies. Having studied creative writing at Harvard University’s summer writing program, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. Her work has been supported on several occasions with monetary grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council, including the 2007 Al Smith Fellowship. She currently presents writing workshops at various venues around the country, while continuing to teach college writing courses in central Kentucky.
Writing Awards:"Myth Information"
▪Winner of the 2009 Ethnographic Poetry Prize Society for Humanistic Anthropology "Maguey Azul" ▪Nominated for Pushcart Award, New Madrid Review. "Pound" ▪ 2008 Portia Steele Poetry Award for Excellence in Writing ▪ 2008 Women Who Write Poetry Award "Coal Country" : ▪2007 Nominated for Pushcart, Triplopia ▪2007 "Best of the Best," Triplopia ▪2006 Passager Poet of the Year, Passager ▪2005 Betty Gabehart Poetry Award ▪2006 Oliver Browning Poetry Award, Poesia ▪2006 Finalist, Rita Dove Poetry Award ▪2006 High Distinction, Margaret Reid Traditional Forms Award "Event Horizon": ▪2007 Emerging Poet, Southern Women Writers' Conference ▪2007 Finalist, Rita Dove Poetry Award ▪Third Place, Women Who Write Annual Poetry Award Grand Prize Winner: ▪2007 Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest, Prism Quarterly Finalist: ▪2009 Rita Dove Poetry Award (International Literary Award) ▪2008 Violet Reed Haas Book Award ▪2008 Rita Dove Poetry Award ▪2007 Writers' Place Short Story Award ▪2007 Rita Dove Poetry Award ▪2006 Rita Dove Poetry Award ▪2007 Writers' Place Short Story Contest ▪2007 Top Ten Finalist, New Women's Voices Poetry Series, Finishing Line Press ▪2006 New Letters Poetry Award ▪2006 Mid American Review Fineline Competition ▪2005 Portlandia Press Chapbook Prize ▪2005 Backwaters Poetry Book Prize ▪2001 Rhino Poetry Magazine Reader/Writer Contest ▪7th Juried Reading, Poetry Center of Chicago. Semi-Finalist: ▪Ontario Book Prize, Black Lawrence Press First Honorable Mention: "General Semantics and the Moles on Your Back" ▪ 2009 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize Honorable Mention: ▪ 2009 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize (for "The Buck") ▪2008 Friends of Acadia Poetry Competition ▪2007 Writers' Place Anthology (for "A Stirring in the Dark") Runner-Up: ▪2009 "Legacies" Contest, Carnegie Center ▪2008 Georgetown Review Poetry Award Third Place: ▪2006 Dancing Poetry Award for "A Small Universe" Writing Residencies, Fellowships, Scholarships:2010
▪Resident Fellow, Vermont Studio Center 2010 ▪Inaugaral Poet-in-Residence at Connemara, the home of the late Carl Sandburg 2009 ▪Resident Fellow, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, Illinois 2009 ▪Resident Fellow, Vermont Studio Center 2008 ▪Resident Fellow, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, Illinois ▪AWP WC & C Scholarship Winner ▪Bread Loaf Writers Conference (Conference Scholarship) ▪Resident Fellow, Footpaths House, Flores Island, Azores, Portugal 2007 ▪Emerging Poet, Southern Women Writers' Conference ▪Judson Jerome Scholarship, Antioch Writers’Workshop ▪Resident Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (May & December) ▪Writer-in-Residence, Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue River, Oregon (Spring Creek Project, OSU) 2006 ▪Writer-in-Residence, Devil's Tower National Monument (National Park Service & Bear Lodge Writers) ▪Resident Fellow, Vermont Studio Center 2005 ▪Bread Loaf Writers' Conference ▪Merit Scholarship, Vermont College Post Graduate Writers' Conference 2004 ▪Baron Wormser Scholarship Award,Stone Coast Writers’ Conference GrantsJanuary 2009
Christina Lovin is a recipient for a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. The grant is to "buy..time to pursue your poetry..." 
Christina Lovin has received professional development funding and also received an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Christina Lovin has received generous support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
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