Anna Journey is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
Education
She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, with an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston, where she served as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast.
Career
She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California, where she is an Assistant Professor of English. She taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, and served as an associate editor for Blackbird. Film director David Lynch called her book, via Twitter, "magical." Her poetry appears in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, "Shenandoah, Gulf Coast," and Blackbird.
Her critical essay on Sylvia Plath (""Dragon Goes to Bed With Princess": F Scott Fitzgerald"s Influence on Sylvia Plath") appears in Notes on Contemporary Literature.
Her essay, "Lost Vocabularies: On Contemporary Elegy" appears in Parnassus: Poetry In Review." In 2006, Journey discovered the unpublished status of Plath"s early sonnet "Ennui" that was published in Blackbird. Anna Journey"s first book of poems, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press: 104 pp, $1695 paper), is a deeply American debut that deals with the author"s Southern childhood and adolescence as a pretty, redheaded girl from the bayou.