Glori Simmons

Glori Simmons is an American poet, and short story writer.

Simmons graduated from the University of Washington and from the University of Michigan with an MFA. She was a 2003 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.^[1]

She is the author of Graft/Poems (Truman State University Press,^[2] 2001) and the recipient of the 2015 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Chelsea 79, Five Fingers Review^[3] and Quarterly West.^[4]

She is the director of the Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco.^[5]

She lives in Oakland, California.

Awards

• 2001 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award co-winner^[6]
• 2004 Dana Award, for short fiction
• 2005 Camargo Foundation Fellowship ^[7]
• 2005 Chelsea Award, for short fiction
• 2015 Spokane Prize, for short fiction (collection)

Works

• "Graft", Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol 51, Summer 2001
• Graft: poems. Truman State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-931112-03-1. 
• Stephen Elliott, Greg Larson, Anthony Ha, eds. (2005). "Peaches". Stumbling and raging: more politically inspired fiction. MacAdam/Cage Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59692-158-0.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link) [anthology]

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