Nathalie Anderson Member Member since 2021

I fuse historical research and personal experience

Poetry

Nathalie Anderson’s poetry combines historical research with personal experience. Her books include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, Rough, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound. She collaborated in 2021 with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, Plume, and she has authored libretti for five operas in collaboration with Philadelphia composer Thomas Whitman. Anderson recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught as the Cummins Professor of English Literature, specializing in contemporary poetry with a focus on Irish writers, and she also served as Director of Swarthmore’s Program in Creative Writing. She is an active member of the American Conference for Irish Studies, has organized readings by ACIS poets at national conferences for over 20 years, and has edited an anthology of poems for Arlen House celebrating this series.

Location:

Philadelphia, PA