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Annette Spaulding-Convy is a poet and editor in the Seattle area. Her full length collection, In Broken Latin, is published by the University of Arkansas Press (Fall 2012) as a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, In the Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was chosen for the 2011 Jack Straw Writer's Program and is a recipient of the Artist Trust GAP Grant (2006) and the Artist Trust Fellowship (2014). Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review and in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, among others. She is co-founder and co-editor of Two Sylvias Press, with Kelli Russell Agodon. Two Sylvias has published the first eBook anthology of contemporary women's poetry, Fire On Her Tongue. Annette is the past co-editor of the literary journal, Crab Creek Review and has recently co-founded Kingston Artist Tree: A Visual Art and Writing Collaborative. Originally from Northern California, Annette currently lives in a small community on Puget Sound.
In Broken Latin is based on the five years Annette spent as a Roman Catholic nun in the San Francisco area, where she taught Latin, English, and Theology in several of her religious order's high schools. She is now married with two children, and when life is crazy, she wishes for a cloistered convent garden.
Description: In Broken Latin explores in a series of deft, witty, sexy, and soulful poems the misunderstood, idealized, and marginalized life of a modern Roman Catholic nun. In these poems, set in the patriarchal institution of the convent, Annette Spaulding-Convy comments on the American woman's struggle for spiritual identity in contemporary culture through the voice of an ex-nun now mother/wife creating a life for herself in the world, while searching for an ethical, spiritual meaning not dependent upon traditional religious dogma.
Contact: asconvy (at symbol) gmail.com
In Broken Latin is based on the five years Annette spent as a Roman Catholic nun in the San Francisco area, where she taught Latin, English, and Theology in several of her religious order's high schools. She is now married with two children, and when life is crazy, she wishes for a cloistered convent garden.
Description: In Broken Latin explores in a series of deft, witty, sexy, and soulful poems the misunderstood, idealized, and marginalized life of a modern Roman Catholic nun. In these poems, set in the patriarchal institution of the convent, Annette Spaulding-Convy comments on the American woman's struggle for spiritual identity in contemporary culture through the voice of an ex-nun now mother/wife creating a life for herself in the world, while searching for an ethical, spiritual meaning not dependent upon traditional religious dogma.
Contact: asconvy (at symbol) gmail.com