Laurel Trivelpiece

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Laurel Trivelpiece (1926, Nebraska – 1998)[1] was an American poet and novelist.

Life

Trivelpiece worked in her youth as fruit-picker and later, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English Literature, as an editor and copy-writer for Macys and other department stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lived in Corte Madera, California.[2]

Trivelpiece authored two poetry collections, four young adult novels, one adult novel, and prize-winning fiction and plays. Her second poetry collection, Blue Holes (

Best American Poetry 1995. Her poems also appeared in literary journals and magazines including Poetry,[3][4] The Massachusetts Review,[5] The American Poetry Review,[6]
and The Malahat Review.[7]

Her short story Gentle Constancy (Denver Quarterly, Fall) was acknowledged in the Distinctive Short Stories, 1970 list in The Best American Short Stories, 1971. Houghton Mifflin Co.

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Awards

  • 1987
    Beatrice Hawley Award

Published works

Poetry Collections

Young Adult Novels

Adult Novels

Anthology Publications

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