Chanda Feldman

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Amaryllis Chanda Feldman (born 1976) is an American poet. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and chair of the creative writing program at Oberlin College,[1] where she has taught since 2017.[2] Feldman was born in Tennessee in 1976.[3][4] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago (1999),[5] as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Cornell University (2003).[1][3][6] She also held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010,[7] as well as a MacDowell Fellowship in 2009,[8] and National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2011.[9] Feldman has been noted in Callaloo as an example of Black people in poetry at American colleges and universities, alongside other Black poets.[10]

Her first collection, entitled Approaching the Fields, was published by

LSU Press in 2018; the book contains four sections, with 22 poems total.[11] The collection received a positive review from Nan Cohen,[12] as well as a review from David M. Brunson.[13] A second collection, Glance, is in press from the same publisher as of 2024.[3]

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  1. ^
    Oberlin College and Conservatory
    . Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  2. ^ "Chanda Feldman, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing". The Oberlin Review. October 12, 2018. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  3. ^ a b c "Chanda Feldman". Chanda Feldman. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  4. LC Linked Data Service
    . Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  5. The University of Chicago Magazine
    . Retrieved 2024-04-06. Entries include an essay by Tyehimba Jess, AB'91, and poetry by Chanda Feldman, AB'99, and English PhD student Korey Williams, AM'14.
  6. ^ "Poet honored". Cornell Chronicle. November 2010. Retrieved 2024-04-06. Chanda Feldman, MFA '03, won a $25,000 creative writing fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
  7. ^ "Creative Writing Program: Former Stegner Fellows". Stanford University. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  8. ^ "Chanda Feldman". MacDowell. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  9. ^ "Chanda Feldman". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  10. JSTOR 26776378
    . For example, we might note the unprecedented number of Black poets holding posts at US colleges and universities, including ... Chanda Feldman at Oberlin College, ...
  11. OCLC 1132665748
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  12. ^ Cohen, Nan (2020-07-11). "Approaching the Fields by Chanda Feldman, Reviewed by Nan Cohen". RHINO. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  13. ^ "Capsule Reviews". David Brunson. Retrieved 2024-04-06.

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