Grace Bauer is an American poet. She lives in Nebraska, grew up in Pennsylvania and has also lived in New Orleans, Montana, Virginia and Massachusetts.^[1]

Biography

Bauer received her BA in journalism from Temple University. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

She has taught at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a reader for Prairie Schooner.^[1] Bauer was also the recipient of the Sorenson Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities.^[2]

Bauer has been published in DoubleTake, Poetry, South Dakota Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere.^[3]

Awards

While at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bauer won the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her other awards include an Individual Artist's Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a Diggs Teaching Scholar Award and Women's Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, the Irene Leache Poetry Prize, a Nebraska Arts Council Award, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She also won the 1999 Snail's Pace Press Chapbook Competition.^[4][1] In 2015, she was the recipient of the Society of Midland Authors' Award for Poetry for her book Nowhere All at Once.^[5]

Books

• Where You've Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press, 1993)
• The House Where I've Never Lived (Anabiosis P, 1993)
• The Women at the Well (Portals Press, 1997)
• Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems on Marcel Duchamp
• Beholding Eye (Custom Words, 2006)
• Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Creative and Critical Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press, Fall 2006).
• Retreats and Recognitions (Lost Horse Press, 2007)^[3]
• Nowhere All at Once (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2014)^[6]
• The Women at the Well (Stephen F. Austin University Press, forthcoming 2016)^[7]