Andrea Hollander Budy

In Brief:
Born in Berlin, Germany, of American parents, raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado, Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for prose memoir, the Runes Poetry Award, two poetry fellowships the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and college textbooks, including Writing Poems, The Poets' Grimm, and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Her work appears regularly in such literary journals as Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, FIELD, Five Points, Shenandoah, and Creative Nonfiction. Since 1977 Budy has lived in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains near Mountain View, where she and her husband Todd and their now-grown son Brooke ran a bed-and-breakfast inn for fifteen years. For the past seventeen years she has been the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

In Addition:
Budy has given more than 150 readings, lectures, and workshops to audiences of all ages at public and private schools, cultural centers, and libraries, including the New York Public Library, Vassar College, Arizona Western College, Shorter College, Texas A& M, College of Charleston, Furman University, and Suffolk University.

During semesters off from Lyon College, Budy has served as Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah; the University of Burgundy (France); the University of Sussex (England); and St Bede’s School (England).

In the summers, Budy is frequently on the faculty of writers’ conferences, workshops, and institutes, including most recently The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers, the Foothill College Writers’ Conference, the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, the Oklahoma Arts Institute, and Poetry OtherWise at Emerson College in England.

She has also been interviewed on such radio programs as Live from Prairie Lights (Iowa City), Prosody (Pittsburgh), New Letters on the Air (Kansas City), and her work has been featured by Garrison Keillor on his radio program, The Writer’s Almanac, and by former United States Poet Laureates Billy Collins on his “Poetry 180” Internet course for high school students, Rita Dove in her Washington Post column, “Poet’s Choice,” and Ted Kooser in his syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”

News:
In 2007 Andrea Hollander Budy won her second poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2008 she received the Subiaco Award for Literary Merit for Excellence in the Writing and Teaching of Poetry.