Anita Endrezze


Anita Endrezze is an American poet, writer, and artist based in Washington.

Background

Endrezze was born in Long Beach, California, in 1952. She claims Yaqui ancestry from her father and European ancestry from her mother.
She graduated with an master's degree from Eastern Washington University.

Career

Endrezze is a storyteller, artist and teacher. She teaches university courses and her work has been translated into seven languages, published in ten countries. She has taken part in the Washington State Council for the Humanities Speakers' Series.

Poet and artist

In March 2000, Endrezze's book Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon was published. The book is illustrated by her paintings.
A book of Endrezze's poems, at the helm of twilight, won the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award and the Governor's Writing Award for Washington State. She also received a grant from Artist Trust to aid her in researching Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon. Lune D'Ambre, a book of her poems translated into French, and published in France by the distinguished house, Rogerie, and a book, The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, published in England by Making Waves Press joins her international publications, along with a children's novel, The Mountain and the Guardian Spirit, in Danish.

Personal

Endrezze lives in Everett, Washington, is married with two children.

Awards

Endrezze's book At the Helm of Twilight was the winner of the Washington Governor's Writers Award and the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Publication Award.

Books by Anita Endrezze

Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon,, University of Arizona Press. at Voices in the Gaps. The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, Making Waves Press.at the helm of twilight, Broken Moon Press. by Leslie Ulman from the Kenyon ReviewBurning the Fields, a Confluence Chapbook, Confluence Press, Lewis and Clark State College.The North People, The Blue Cloud Quarterly Press.

Textbooks

Approaching Literature in the 21st Century, Peter Schakel & Jack Ridl, Bedford/St. Martins Press.Three Genres: The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, Stephen Minot, Prentice Hall.Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses, Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl, St. Martin's Press.Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, by John Frederick Nims, McGraw Hill Text.Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Reader for Writers, Marjorie Ford, Jon Ford, Harpercollins College Div.Elements of Literature, by Robert Anderson, Holt Rinehart & Winston.Yo Words, One Reel, Seattle 1994

Interviews

Here First, Arnold Krupat, Brian Swann, Random House

Work published in translation

Lune d'Ambre, poems in French.Bjerget og Skystsaanden