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Pennsylvania State University. Arizona State University.
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Ruth Kocher
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Her poems have been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine She’r and have appeared or are forthcoming in various anthologies including, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poets, Black Nature, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, An Anthology for Creative Writers: The Garden of Forking Paths, IOU: New Writing On Money, New Bones: Contemporary Black Writing in America. Her work has been published in numerous journals. Her collaborative scholarly work on Frederick Douglass (Miller, Keith Doctorate, and Ruth Ellen Kocher “Shattering Kidnapper"s Heavenly Union: Interargumentation in Douglass"s Oratory and Narrative” Hall 1999 81-87) has become a staple pedagogical text in slave narrative studies.
Kocher earned her Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania State University in 1990, her Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 1994, and her Doctor of Philosophy from Arizona State University in 1999.
She has taught at Missouri Western State College, Southern Illinois University and the University of Missouri. She has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and Yaddo.
She has taught for the University of Missouri, Southern Illinois University, the New England College Low Residency Master of Fine Arts program, the Indiana Summer Writer’s workshop, and Washington University’s Summer Writing program She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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