Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody
Born: 1945 in Washington, D.C.
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Vertreace-Doody lives in Chicago and is a Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence, Kennedy-King College. Biography: Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody's work focuses on American experiences, as a black woman in the Chicago region, as a participant in American history, and as a community activist. She has been involved in Chicago’s Catholic and African American communities, serving as a time as an editor of Community Magazine at Friendship House in Chicago and publishing poetry in the National Catholic Reporter.
Awards:
- """Glacier Fire"""
- -- Word Press Poetry Prize, 2004
- """Light Caught Bending"""
- -- Scottish Arts Council Grant, 1995 the first time the award was given to a writer who is not British
- """Other Awards"""
- -- The Glendora Review Poet, Lagosm Nigeria
- -- Twice Fellow at the Hawthornden International Writers' Retreat in Scotland
- -- Poetry Fellow, in residence at the Writers Center, Dublin, Ireland
- -- Research Fellow at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Wales
- -- National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, 1993
- -- Illinios Arts Council Literary Awards
- -- Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
- -- Significant Illinois Poet Award from Gwendolyn Brooks, 1993
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_M._Vertreace-Doody
Selected Titles
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Glacier fire : ISBN: 1932339590 OCLC: 58806299 Word Press, Cincinnati, OH : ©2004. |
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IN THIS GLAD HOUR. ISBN: 0944048595 OCLC: 1162578280 |
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Kelly in the mirror / ISBN: 0807541524 OCLC: 26255832 A. Whitman, Morton Grove, Ill. : ©1993. A young girl feels sad that she doesn't look like anyone in her family--until she finds a photograph album in the attic. |
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Light caught bending / ISBN: 0946230285 OCLC: 33208660 Diehard, Edinburgh : ©1995. |
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Maafa : ISBN: 0938507249 OCLC: 34282395 Ion Books, Memphis, TN : 1996. |
| Second house from the corner / ISBN: 093829900X OCLC: 13665677 Kennedy-King College Print. Dept., Chicago : 1986. |
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| Second mourning / ISBN: 0946230498 OCLC: 40179616 Diehard, Edinburgh : ©1998. |
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Under a cat's-eye moon / ISBN: 0914403001 OCLC: 24143447 |