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Anne F Walker PhD, author, poet, editor, professor, and the Director of the Writer’s Craft Program located at Holy Names University.

Biography
Anne F Walker born on October 30th in Oakland California to her parents Mary Anne and Gerald Walker. She was raised in Berkeley until 1971 when her family immigrated to Toronto, Canada. When she was 15 she left high school and took almost two years before coming into her early entrance to York University in Toronto. She completed her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at York University and participated in the League of Canadian Poets in 1986, where began writing poetry. There she studied with bpNichol, Frank Davey, Susan Swan, and Eli Mandel. She could think of nothing else but to write, produce, and lead writing workshops for an independent work film company in Toronto.

In 1991 Black Moss Press published her first book of poetry, Six Months Rent. It was shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial Award. It was followed by Pregnant Poems in 1994 by the same publisher. She later received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in English from Mills College, where she founded Redwood Coast Press. She subsequently attended the University of California, Berkeley for her Masters of Arts in Urban Social Geography. Her third book of poetry, Into the Peculiar Dark in 1998 was contracted by Coach House Press, then was brought out by The Mercury Press. She completed her interdisciplinary doctorate in American Urban Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley. Palimpsest Press published her fourth book of poetry, The Exit Show in 2003. In 2010 her fifth book of poetry American Urban Poetics: linestraffickingimageslikesteets, a critical poetics works was published by VDM Verlag. She taught for six years at the University of California, Merced and is now the Director of the Writer’s Craft Program, a newly re-imagined English program at Holy Names University. Through her career she had one son, Jamil, who also lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Publications
Books of Poetry
 * The Exit Show (Kingsville: Palimpsest Press, 2003)
 * Into the Peculiar Dark (The Mercury Press & The bpNichol Foundation, 1998)
 * Pregnant Poems (Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1994)
 * Six Months Rent (Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1991)

Poetics
 * American Urban Poetics: linestraffickingimageslikestreets (VDM, 2010)

Publishing Editor Creative Journals
 * Then’s Elsewhere (Redwood Coast Press, 2010)
 * bite to eat place: an anthology of contemporary food poetry and poetic prose (Redwood Coast Press, 1995)
 * Improv (Redwood Coast Press, 1994)
 * Beginning in 1985, She has had hundreds of poems published in many journals. She has provided editing support to the ones listed below:

Edited
 * epithet (Thornburg Press 2006)
 * Canto. (Guest Editor, 2005)
 * Outsider Quarterly (International Poetry Editor and Creative Consultant, 2004-5)
 * Kaleidoscope: An International Journal of Poetry (Palimpsest Press, 2002-3)
 * FUCK Poetry. (bpNichol, Publication Advisor, 1985)
 * Existere. (Consulting Editor, 1985)

Honors and Awards
Creative
 * Eisner Literature Prizes, University of California, Berkeley (two awards)Short-listed for the K.M. Hunter Artists Literature Award through the Ontario Arts Council
 * Short-listed for The Pat Lowther Memorial Award through the League of Canadian Poets
 * Canada Council Arts Literature Grants for Poetry (four awards)
 * Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grants through Arc, Black Moss Press, Netherlandic Press, Cormorant Books, The Canadian Forum, Open Letter, Poetry Canada, and Coach House Press (fourteen awards)
 * Ontario Arts Council Works-in-Progress Grants (three awards)
 * Canada Council Explorations Grant
 * Ontario Film Development Corporation Scriptwriting Grant

Academic
 * President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California (system-wide)
 * Mentored Research Award Fellowships, University of California, Berkeley (two awards)
 * Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (through: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies via the Department of Women’s Studies), University of California Berkeley
 * University Section Club Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
 * Alumnae Scholarships, Mills College (two awards)

Service
She has consistently been active in service work in both my academic and social environments. Concentrations of administrative service have been in disability and academic appeals, assisting at-risk students, advocating for low-income students with families, admissions, hiring, writing committees, curriculum development, program management and improvement, managing arts competition involvement, and union support.