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Tess Gallagher (b. 1943) is a poet, litterateur, novelist, & dramatist. Natural within Port Angeles, Washington, she attended the University of Washington, where she exposed originative writing by using Theodore Roethke and later Nelson Bentley. Her honors include a fellowship from either the Guggenheim Foundation, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, the Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award, and a Elliston Award for "best book of poetry published by a small press" for the collection Videos to the Double (1976). Around 1984, she published a collection, Willingly, which consists of verse form written to & just about her third married man, creator Raymond Carver, who died around 1988. Carver encouraged her to write short stories, a few of which were collected in The Lover of Horses (1987). Gallagher has taught at numerous colleges.
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A Conversation with Tess Gallagher An interview with Gallagher archived at the Atlantic Unbound website. Tess Gallagher - The Academy of American Poets Biography, photograph, and selected poems. |
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