Kelli Russell Agodon

Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969 in Seattle) is an award-winning American poet, writer, and editor.

She was raised in Seattle, and graduated from the University of Washington, and Pacific Lutheran University Rainier Writing Workshop with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in Washington State. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Image, 5 a.m, Meridian, Calyx.

She is married and lives in the Northwest.

She was the co-editor of the Crab Creek Review from 2009 until 2014. She is the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press.

Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014):

• 2014 Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards in Poetry
• 2014 Runner-up for the Julie Suk Prize in Poetry

Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (White Pine Press, 2010):

• 2010 Book of the Year in Poetry from Foreword Magazine
• Finalist for the 2010 Washington State Book Awards
• Winner of the White Pine Press 2009 Poetry Book Prize (judged by Carl Dennis)

Geography (Floating Bridge Press, 2003):

• 2003 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award

Other Recognition:

• Washington State Artist Trust GAP grants
• 2005 James Hearst Poetry Prize 3rd place
• Dorothy Rosenberg Poetry Prize
• William Stafford Award
• Carlin Aden Award for formal verse
• Soapstone Writer's Residency
• Puffin Foundation grant

• "James Hearst Poetry Prize Winners". North American Review. Retrieved 2012-10-21. 

• "Frida Kahlo Tattoo, Poetry Daily
• "Braided Between the Broken, New England Review
• "How Killer Blue Irises Spread, The Atlantic
• "Letting Gatsby Out at 11 p.m., Body Literature
• "Sailing Lepidoptera," "The Half-Moon Couple, Adirondack Review
• "Dord"; "Unintentionally Typing the Word Life Instead of Lips"; "?", Womb Poetry
• "Sometimes I still dream about their pink bodies", Poetry Southeast
• "How Killer Blue Irises Spread", The Atlantic

Books

• Geography. Floating Bridge Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-930446-06-9. 
• Small Knots. Cherry Grove Collections. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932339-27-7. 
• An Alphabet Between Us. Pacific Lutheran University. 2007. 
• Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room, White Pine Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-935210-15-3
• Hourglass Museum. White Pine Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1935210511. 

Anthologies

• Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, eds. (2003). "Of a Forgetful Sea". Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Garrison Keillor, ed. (2005). Good poems for hard times. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03436-9. 
• Michael A. Lacombe, Tom Hartman, eds. (2008). In Whatever Houses We May Visit: An Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians. ACP Press. ISBN 978-1-934465-06-6.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)