Discipline: Literature – poetry

Glori Simmons

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002
More: www.glorisimmons.com
Glori Simmons is an American poet and short story writer. Simmons graduated from the University of Washington and from the University of Michigan with an M.F.A. She was a 2003 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the author of Graft/Poems (Truman State University Press, 2001) and the recipient of the 2015 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Chelsea 79, Five Fingers Review, and Quarterly West. She is the director of the Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco.

Studios

Watson

Glori Simmons worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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