Sorby, Angela

Angela Sorby received her PhD from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Marquette University.   She is the author of three books, Distance Learning (poems, New Issues Press, 1998); Schoolroom Poets (criticism, UPNE, 2005); and Bird Skin Coat (poems, U of Wisconsin Press, 2009), which won the Brittingham Prize, the Midwest Book Award for Poetry, a National Fellowship of Poets Merit Citation, and Outstanding Poetry Title Recognition from the Wisconsin Library Association.  Among her other honors are a Fulbright fellowship, the Lorine Niedecker prize, and a Discovery/”The Nation” prize.  She lives in Milwaukee with her husband and three children.