Nancy Pagh teaches at Western Washington University in Bellingham.  She has authored two award-winning collections of poetry (No Sweeter Fat and After) and one book of nonfiction (At Home Afloat).  Her creative writing textbook (Write Moves) is forthcoming from Broadview Press and a collection of poems (Once Removed) is forthcoming from MoonPath Press in early 2016.  Her poems appear most recently in Pif Magazine, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Canadian Literature, Conversations across Borders, and A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology.  She took second prize (of 4,484 entries) in the 2014 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest and recently judged the Concrete Wolf chapbook competition.  Nancy has performed in national and international reading series, among them the Gist Street Master’s series in Pittsburgh, the Skagit River Poetry Festival in LaConner, and the Cross-Border Pollination series in Vancouver, B.C.  She has taught in regional workshops such as the Port Townsend Writers’ Workshop, the Field’s End Writer’s Conference, and the Whidbey Island Writers Association conference.  She has been the D. H. Lawrence Fellow at the Taos Summer Writers Conference and a recipient of an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship.

Website: www.nancypagh.com

Publications

• After , Floating Bridge Press (January 1, 2008)
• No Sweeter Fat , Autumn House Press (January 1, 2007)
• At Home Afloat , University of Calgary Press (January 1, 2001)

Awards

• Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Award(2012)
• Autumn House Press Book Prize(2006)

Employment

• Senior Instructor at Western Washington U (January 2012 - January 2012)

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from University of British Columbia (January 2012)
• Master of Arts in Creative Writing from University of New Hampshire (January 2012)
• Master of Arts in English/Literature from University of New Hampshire (January 2012)
• Bachelor of Arts in English/Publishing & Printing Arts from Pacific Lutheran University (January 2012)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry