Connie Wanek


Connie Wanek is an American poet.

Life

She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In 1989, she moved with her family to Duluth, Minnesota. She now divides her time between Minnesota and New Mexico.
Her work appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, and Missouri Review.
She has published four books of poetry, one book of short prose, and served as co-editor of the comprehensive historical anthology of Minnesota women poets, called To Sing Along the Way. Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States, named her a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress for 2006.

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