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Connie Wanek
Connie Wanek lived for over a quarter century in Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of 10 books, including Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems. Wanek’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals. She was named a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress in 2006 by (then) Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, and she also received the George Morrison Artist of the Year Award. In 2022 Wanek cowrote a book of poems for younger readers with Ted Kooser, Marshmallow Clouds, that won the prestigious CLiPPA prize in the UK.
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Autobiography of a Cuckoo (Knife River Press, 2026)
The Singular Miss Betty Brost (Knife River Press, 2025)
How to Sing for Money (Nodin Press, 2025)
Marshmallow Clouds (Candlewick Books, 2022)
Consider the Lilies (Will o’ the Wisp Books, 2018)
Rival Gardens (University of Nebraska Press, 2016)
Summer Cars (Will o’ the Wisp Books, 2014)
On Speaking Terms (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
Hartley Field (Holy Cow! Press, 2002)
Bonfire (New Rivers Press, 1997)
