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Anne Halley (born Ute Marianne Elisabeth Halle; November 9, 1928 – July 12, 2004) was a German-born American poet, editor, translator, and educator.

Biography
Halley was born on November 9, 1928 in Bremerhaven, Germany. Her parents, Maxwell Halle and Margarethe Kohlhepp, were both doctors. As the Nazis assumed power, Halley’s father –who was Jewish and thus forbidden to practice medicine – immigrated to the U.S. with her older brother, in 1936. They would be joined by Halley’s mother a year later, which left Anne and her twin sister, Renate, under the protection of their aunt, who enrolled the twins in the school where she taught. Finally, in 1938, Anne and Renate were able to move to the U.S., and the family settled in Orlean, New York.

Halley attended Wellesley University at the age of 16, where she studied writing under the mentorship of Mary Doyle Curran, and was chosen to read at the Glasscock Prize event at Mount Holyoke. Anne graduated from Wellesly in 1949. Two years later she received a Master’s in English from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she studied under Robert Penn Warren. It was there she also met her future husband, Jules Chametzky. They were married in 1953 and moved to Amherst, Massachusetts in 1958, after Chametzky was offered a position in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts. Together they had three sons; Matthew, Robert, and Peter.

In 2004, at the age of 75, Anne Halley died from complications of multiple myeloma.

Academic Career and Writing
Halley first taught as a teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota before going on to teach at both UMass Amherst and Smith College as a part-time instructor and visiting lecturer; she was also an Assistant Professor at Holyoke Community College where she was active in the anti-war in Vietnam protests, delivering medical supplies to Canada to be sent over the Vietnameese. In addition, she taught intermittently in Germany at Frankfurt University and The Free University of Berlin.

A noted poet and feminist, Halley won a number of awards for both poetry and prose: the Wing Poetry Prize as an undergrad at Wellesley in 1948, the O.Henry Prize in 1976, a Massachusetts Artist Foundation Fellowship for poetry in 1980, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 1982, for her story “The Kaiser’s Horses”. The story was accepted by The New Yorker, which led to a book contract with Random House. Halley finished the novel, and proofs of her story had been made in New York, but neither were published. “The Kaiser’s Horses” was ultimately published by The Southern Review in 1980.

Halley did publish three collections of poetry: Between Wars & Other Poems (1965), which was originally published by noted sculptor and artist Leonard Baskin through his Gehenna Press in Northampton, MA, then reissued by the University of Massachusetts Press. With UMass Press, she also published The Bearded Mother (1979) and Rumors of the Turning Wheel (2003), the former also being designed and illustrated by Baskin. Her poetry has been published in various outlets, “My Two Grandfathers” appeared in Saul Bellow’s The Noble Savage, and “The Village Hears that Gold is Unstable” in The New Republic. Halley also translated German satirist Kurt Tucholsky’s Deutschland über Alles.

From 1977 to 2002, Halley served as the poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review. The Anne Halley Poetry Prize, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Review and the English Department at UMass Amherst, is named in her honor.

Published Works
Between Wars & Other Poems (University of Massachusetts Press, 1965) The Bearded Mother (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979) Rumors of the Turning Wheel (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003)

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