BIOGRAPHY

​​Ann Keniston is a poet-scholar interested in the relation of the creative to the scholarly. She is the author of two poetry collections, Somatic (Terrapin 2020) and The Caution of Human Gestures (Wordtech 2005), and a chapbook, November Wasps: Elegies (Finishing Line 2013). She is also the coeditor of The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland 2012). A recipient of numerous Nevada Arts Council fellowships and grants in poetry as well as fellowships from Sierra Arts (Reno) and the Somerville (MA) Arts Council, she has held residencies at the CAMAC Arts Center (France), the Ucross Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in over thirty journals, including Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, and Literary Imagination. An experienced teacher of poetry in K-12 classes, she has also offered poetry and publishing workshops in the community. Keniston is a scholar of contemporary American poetry and professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches poetry workshops and literature classes.

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POETRY AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

​Fellowship Project Grant, Nevada Arts Council, FY2019
Residency, Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, CA, 2019
Artist Fellowship Grant, Nevada Arts Council, FY2018, FY2016
Professional Development Grant, Nevada Arts Council, 2019, 2016, 2005, 2004
Residency/Fellowship and Subvention Award, Camac Arts Center, France, 2016
Residency/Fellowship, Wellspring House, MA, 2016
Residency/Fellowship, Noepe Center for Literary Arts, MA, 2016
Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2012
Centrum Foundation, Residency/Fellowship, 2009
Ucross Foundation, Residency/Fellowship, 2008, 1996
Jackpot Grant, Nevada Arts Council, 2008
Endowment Fund Artist’s Grant, Sierra Arts Foundation, 2007