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

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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.

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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.

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

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A Brief History of the Midwest

Sancta

Shadeland

A Belonging Field

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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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