Sandra Alcosser, MFA

Sandra Alcosser's two books of poems, Except by Nature and A Fish to Feed All Hunger, have won the highest awards from the National Poetry Series, The Academy of American Poets, and the Associated Writing Programs. Her four artist book collaborations with Brighton Press are in museum collections and exhibited internationally. She has received numerous honors including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Push Cart Prize Anthology. Alcosser directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University each fall and has been a recent visiting writer at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana. She currently serves as a Poet-in-Residence braiding poetry and conservation philosophy for the Central Park Zoo, Poets House New York, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. She also directs the 2004-2005 SDSU International Writing Program at National University of Ireland, Galway. Alcosser is poetry editor for Parabola Magazine.