Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poems, most recently Windfall: New and Selected Poems published in 2000. Her other books include Cold Comfort (1986) and A Space Filled with Moving (1992). Anderson is also the editor of the new and selected poems of Louise McNeill and co-editor of Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School and A Gathering of Poets, an anthology of poems read to commemorate the 20thanniversary of the shootings of students in an anti-war protest at Kent State University in 1970. Recent poems have been published in The Alaska Quarterly, The Georgia Review, and The American Poetry Review.

Anderson has received fellowships for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony, and the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Commission. She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Oregon. Currently Maggie Anderson is professor of English at Kent State University where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press.
 

Areas of Interest

Creative writing (poetry), Appalachian literature

Selected Recent Publications

Books

• Windfall: New and Selected Poems. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Poems. 130 pages.
• A Space Filled with Moving. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Poems. 63 pages.
• Cold Comfort. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986. Poems. 68 pages. Second printing, 1988.
• Years That Answer. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., 1980. Poems. 96 pages.
• The Great Horned Owl. Riderwood, MD: Icarus Press, 1979. Poems. 45 pages. Limited edition (500).

Books Edited

• Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. Edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler, with a foreword by Robert Coles. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1999. Poems. 228 pages. Second printing, 2000. Third printing, 2002.
• A Gathering of Poets. Edited by Maggie Anderson and Alex Gildzen; Ray Craig, Associate Editor. Introduction by Maggie Anderson, Ray Craig, and Alex Gildzen. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1992. Poems. 300 pages. Second printing, 1993.
• Hill Daughter (New and Selected Poems) by Louise McNeill. Edited and with an Introduction by Maggie Anderson. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. Poems. 140 pages. Second printing, 1992.
• The Milkweed Ladies by Louise McNeill. Freelance editor. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Prose/memoir. 122 pages.

Journal Editor

• Editor and co-founder of Trellis (A Magazine of Poetry and Poetics). Morgantown, WV: The Trellis Press Association, 1971-81.
  

Articles

• "The River Down Home: James Wright and My Hillbilly Father." In Ohioana Quarterly. 44.1
• (March-April 2000): 6-11.
• "You are Somewhere: Thoughts on Poetry and Place." In A View from the Loft: A Magazine about Writing. 16.6 (January 1994): 3, 14-15.
• "Jane Cooper." Critical entry in American Women Writers from Colonial Times to the Present (A Critical Reference Guide). Vol. 5, Supplement. C. H. Green & M.G. Mason, Eds. New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1994. 85-87.
• "Plumbing the Depth of Water: Time and Place in the Work of Louise McNeill." Poetry East, "Praises" Issue 35 (Summer 1993): 133-145.
• "Saving the Dishes." Poetry East, "Poetics" Issue 20 & 21 (Fall 1986): 88-95.
• "Art and Accident" and "Sitting There: The Discipline of Writing." In The Sourcebook for Women Who Create .Eds., G. Adams, M. Miles, & L. Yoder. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Center for Women's Studies, 1986, 8-10, 99-102. (Reprints.)
• "Art and Accident." Creative Person (The Quarterly for Creative People) 1.3 (Spring 1985): 12-16. (Reprint.)
• "Hungry for Equals: Art and Loneliness." West Virginia Arts News 2.4 (August 1981): 1, 5.
• "Sitting There: The Discipline of Writing." West Virginia Arts News 2.3 (May 1981): 4-6.
• "Art and Accident." West Virginia Arts News 2.2 (April 1981): 5-7.
• "Contagious Obsessions: A Source for Poetry." West Virginia Arts News 2.1 (February 1981): 2-5.
• "Poems We All Like." Trellis Three 3 (Summer 1979): 72-73.
• "Occasional Poems." Trellis Two 2 (Spring 1975): 2-6.
• "Some More Thoughts on Poems by Young People." The First Trellis Supplement (Summer 1974): 64-66.
• "Poems by Young People." Trellis One 1 (Spring 1973): 81-84.

Poetry Series Editorship

• Wick Poetry Book Series. Kent OH: Kent State UP. Annual.
• Wick Poetry Chapbook Series. Kent OH: Kent State UP. Annual.