Nancy Pagh

Nancy Pagh has authored three collections of poetry (Once Removed, No Sweeter Fat, and After) and one book of nonfiction (At Home Afloat). Her textbook (Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide & Anthology) was published in 2016 by Broadview Press. Nancy's work appears in many periodicals (including Valparaiso Poetry Review, Canadian Literature, Prairie Schooner, Crab Creek Review, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, CuiZine, Bellingham Review, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and O: the Oprah magazine) and anthologies (Refugium: Poems for the Pacific; Fire on Her Tongue: An eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women's Poetry; The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry; and When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women).

Nancy has performed in national and international reading series, among them the Gist Street Master's series in Pittsburgh, the Skagit River Poetry Festival in LaConner, and the Cross-Border Pollination series in Vancouver, B.C. She has taught in regional workshops such as the Port Townsend Writers' Workshop, the Field's End Writer's Conference, and the Whidbey Island Writers Association conference. She has been the D. H. Lawrence Fellow at the Taos Summer Writers Conference and a recipient of an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. She lives in Bellingham and teaches at Western Washington University. More at http://nancypagh.com .