Judith Vollmer

Judith Vollmer is an American poet and editor.
She teaches privately, and in The Drew University MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation; and is Emerita Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh/Greensburg.
Vollmer is the author of five full-length books of poetry, including most recently The Apollonia Poems.Vollmer co-founded 5 AM, a national poetry journal which published twice yearly from 1984-2013. Three of her five full-length books are from the university press at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Awards and honours

Book publication awards include the Brittingham, the Cleveland State, and the Center for Book Arts prizes. She has won Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo, Centrum Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and Vermont Studio Colony.

Published works

The Water Books, poetry Reactor, poetry The Door Open To the Fire, poetry Black Butterfly, poetry Level Green, poetry; winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry