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Janet Holmes » Bio
Janet Holmes is author of Humanophone
(2001) and The Green Tuxedo (1998, Sandeen
Award), both from University of Notre Dame Press,
and The Physicist at the Mall (1994), which
won the Anhinga Prize. The Green Tuxedo
was named Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord
magazine and received the 1999 Minnesota Book
Award; Holmes's poems have been chosen by A.R.
Ammons and Richard Howard to appear in editions
of The Best American Poetry. She is the
recipient of fellowships from the Bush Foundation,
the McKnight foundation, the Minnesota State Arts
Board, the Loft, and the Jerome Foundation, as
well as The Pablo Neruda Award from Nimrod
magazine and the Chad Walsh Prize from Beloit
Poetry Journal. She has been a faculty member
in Boise State University's MFA program in creative
writing since 1999. There, she is director of
Ahsahta Press, a not-for-profit all-poetry press.
