Background
Ullman, Leslie was born on April 28, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Frederick Ernest and Ann (Riegelman) University.
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Slow Work Through Sand (Iowa Poetry Prize)
(For a number of years, Leslie Ullman has lived in the Sou...)
For a number of years, Leslie Ullman has lived in the Southwest, on cultivated land, in the company of horses and with access to uncultivated desert. The seasons and conditions of this starkly appealing land have found their way into the poet and her work. Ullman creates origins for herself in nature, in solitude, in animals, and of course through those aspects of human relationships which teach important lessons. Since winning the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Award in 1979, Ullman has manifested her love of language as both writer and teacher. As she remembers from her youthful summers in a Wisconsin lake lodge: Sometimes the words I read were the tap of rain on the roof or the fire snapping in its great stone bed, but mostly they bloomed as the sound of the lake, a mantra against the weathered dock She writes that her book may be trying to validate the history of women -- the title of one of the poems -- just as men's history has always validated hugely and by implication the way we use language and the way history has been taught. Hers is not a defensive or an angry intention, however, but an exciting one. Slow Work through Sand attempts simply to make visible the dance a woman's life is, not apart from other dances but as a valid dance among dances.
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Leslie Ullman
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Leslie Ullman, American Poet, English language educator. Creative Writing fellow National Education Association, 1976, 89; recipient New Writers award Great Lakes College Association, 1979; Breadloaf fellow Breadloaf Writers Conference, 1985; Periclean Alumni scholar Skidmore College, 1996. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association West, Academy American Poets, Association Writing Programs.
Education
Bachelor in English, Skidmore College, 1969. Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University Iowa, 1974.
Career
Assistant to managing editor Mademoiselle Magazine, New York City, 1969-1970. Managing editor publications Bennington (Vermont) College, 1970-1972. Instructor English University Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1974-1975, part-time lecturer Kansas City, 1975-1979.
Professor English University Texas, El Paso, 1979—2005. Member graduate faculty Master of Fine Arts program Vermont College Fine Arts, Montpelier, since 1981. Director creative writing University Texas, El Paso, 1987—2002, professor emerita, since 2005.
Lecturer Park College, Baker University, Ottawa University, William Jewell College, 1975-1979.
Achievements
Works
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Slow Work Through Sand (Iowa Poetry Prize)
(For a number of years, Leslie Ullman has lived in the Sou...)
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Slow Work Through Sand (Iowa Poetry Prize)
Membership
Member of Associate Writing Programs, Academy American Poets, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association West.
Interests
Connections
Married Rush Rankin, June 20, 1975 (divorced August 1979). Married Lewis Aptekar, November 6, 1982 (divorced April 1988).
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Born
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Nationality
American
Education
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1969
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1974
Career
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1969 - 1970
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1970 - 1972
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1974 - 1975
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1979 - 2005
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1981
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1987 - 2002
Awards
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Creative Writing fellow National Education Association, 1976, 89. Recipient New Writers award Great Lakes College Association, 1979, Yale Series of Younger Poets award, 1978, Iowa Poetry prize, 1998. Breadloaf fellow Breadloaf Writers Conference, 1985. Periclean Alumni scholar Skidmore College, 1996.Creative Writing fellow National Education Association, 1976, 89. Recipient New Writers award Great Lakes College Association, 1979, Yale Series of Younger Poets award, 1978, Iowa Poetry prize, 1998. Breadloaf fellow Breadloaf Writers Conference, 1985.
Periclean Alumni scholar Skidmore College, 1996.