Averill Curdy

Averill Ann Curdy is an American poet and academic.

Life
She received her MFA from the University of Houston and her PhD from the University of Missouri.

Curdy worked as an arts administrator and as a marketing manager and technical editor.

Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Raritan and the Kenyon Review.

She lives in Chicago and is a professor at Northwestern University.

Awards

 * 2007 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 * 2005 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
 * 2007 Lannan Writing Marfa Residency Fellowship

Works

 * "Anatomical Angel", Poetry, (June 2006)
 * "To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)", Poetry, (June 2009)
 * "Hardware", Poetry, (June 2009)
 * "Probation", Poetry, (April 2005)
 * "Femme Fatale", Slate, June 1, 2004