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A Brief History of the Midwest

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Bio

Andrew Grace was born in 1978 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where his family has farmed for several generations.

He studied English literature at Kenyon College in Ohio, and earned his MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. He attended Stanford as a Stegner Fellow, and earned his Doctoral degree from the University of Cincinnati.

He is the the author of three books of poems, A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing), Shadeland (Ohio State University Press) and SANCTA (Ahsahta/Foundlings). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, New Criterion and Adroit Journal amongst others. He is also a Senior Editor at the Kenyon Review.

He now teaches poetry at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio where he lives with his wife Tory and their two daughters.

My Books

Sancta

Shadeland

A Belonging Field

My Books
Praise

Andrew Grace is an expert in what I like to call Close Looking, a tender attentiveness to place, and the people who are the engine of a place, all of which springs to life in A Brief History Of The Midwest. This is a massively generous, incredibly transportative book.

HANIF ABDURRAQIB

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Featured Poems

For The Silo Boys​

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Said Gun’s 100th Birthday

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Not a Mile

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