Sandra Meek is the author of six books of poems, most recently Still (Persea Books, 2020), named a “New & Noteworthy Poetry Book” by The New York Times Book Review. Of Still, The New York Times writes: “Meek’s prescient poetry has long dwelled darkly on humanity’s environmental impact; in this book, her sixth, the tone has grown urgent, even apocalyptic.” Library Journal, in naming Still a “Top Spring Poetry Title,” writes: “Sandra Meek treats her elegantly crafted poems as still-lifes displaying the catastrophes of history….Absorbing reading.”

Other titles by Sandra Meek include An Ecology of Elsewhere (Persea, 2016), Road Scatter (Persea, 2012), Biogeography, winner of the Dorset Prize (Tupelo 2008), Burn (2005), and Nomadic Foundations (2002), as well as an edited anthology, Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark 2007), which was awarded a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, she has three times been awarded Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry and twice the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry—she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Manyana, Botswana, 1989-1991.

From 2007-2020, Meek served as Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, and in 2015 she created the Georgia Poets Initiative, a registry of Georgia’s best poets who have each generously agreed to give one reading per year for no stipend at a Georgia college, university, or nonprofit. Poetry Editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum and a co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, she is the Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College and lives in Rome, Georgia.

Website: www.sandrameek.com

Twitter Username: @SandraMeek_poet

Publications

• Still , Persea Books (January 2020)
• An Ecology of Elsewhere , Persea Books (May 2016)
• Road Scatter , Persea Books (September 2012)
• Biogeography , Tupelo Press (November 2008)
• Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Editor) , Ninebark Press (February 2007)
• Burn (January 2005)
• Nomadic Foundations (May 2002)

Awards

• Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry(2017)
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2015)
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (2011)
• Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for the Anthology (2008)
• Dorset Award, Tupelo Press (2006)
• Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry (2006)
• Peace Corps Writers Award, Poetry (2003)
• Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry (2003)

Employment

• Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing at Berry College
• Director, Georgia Poetry Circuit (August 2007 - May 2020)
• Poetry Editor, Phi Kappa Phi Forum (August 2008 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Poetry from Colorado State University (May 1989)
• Doctoral Degree in English: Creative Writing, Poetry from University of Denver (June 1995)
• Bachelor of Arts in English, Creative Writing from Colorado State University (May 1986)

Genres of Interest

Poetry