Background
Talvikki Ansel was born on December 23, 1962. She grew up in Mystic, Connecticut.
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Ansel earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1985.
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Ansel received Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University in 1993.
Pushcart Prize
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The poems presented in this collection are spare but specific, driven by a consciousness that perceives the world's details in order of preference - nature, femininity, terror - gathering strength through wisdom, or vice versa.
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Talvikki Ansel was born on December 23, 1962. She grew up in Mystic, Connecticut.
Ansel earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1993.
Ansel is the author of poems My Shining Archipelago, published by Yale University Press in 1997. Her Jetty & other poems was published six years later. Ansel's poems Somewhere in Space were release by Ohio State University Press in 2015.
Ansel's poems have appeared in the anthologies New Young American Poets and The Pushcart Prize XXVI, and in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah. Her work has also been included in the anthology New Young American Poets, edited by Kevin Prufer.
Besides her writing career, Ansel has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Texas at Austin.
She currently lives in Rhode Island.
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“[Ansel] renders the heat, the closeness, the mystery, and the terrible fear of the undisclosed, the lurking, the waiting to happen. This is true imagination, true craft.” - James Dickey
“Talvikki Ansel’s poems in Somewhere in Space create a portal of hope where humans can recover a sense of what it means to be animal on a planet imperiled. Ansel is a twenty-first-century ‘New Englandly’ Dorothy Wordsworth, paying keen, peripatetic, nineteenth-century attention to the salvific slippage among the human, animal, feral, cultured, and terrestrial realms of our moment. The poems in this collection build a cosmology that is atmospheric, pan-geographic, and emotional.” - Lisa R. Spaar