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Biographical Note
Sandra Meek's third book of poems, "Biogeography," was the 2006 winner of the Dorset Award (Tupelo Press, November 2008). Her previous book publications include "Nomadic Foundations" (2002) and "Burn" (2005), and she has also published a chapbook, "The Circumference of Arrival" (2001). She is also the editor of an anthology, "Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad" (Ninebark Press, 2007), which was awarded a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal. She has published more than one hundred poems in journals such as Agni, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Conjunctions, Green Mountains Review, and The Iowa Review, and she has twice been awarded Georgia Author of the Year, in 2006 for "Burn," and in 2003 for "Nomadic Foundations," which also was awarded the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry. Meek served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Manyana, Botswana, 1989-1991. In 2008, she was named Poetry Editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum, the flagship publication of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, a journal which has a per-issue distribution of more than 100,000. She is a co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, and Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College. She lives in Rome, Georgia, USA.
"Biogeography" at Tupelo Press: https://www.tupelopress.org/biogeo.shtml
