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Angela Voras-Hills

  • Teaching Assistant - Doctoral, English

Education

  • MFA, Creative Writing, UMass-Boston, 2011
  • BA with Distinction, English with Creative Writing Emphasis, UW-Madison, 2008

Research Interests

  • Contemporary Poetry
  • Ecopoetics
  • Motherhood in America
  • Domesticity
  • Feminist Perspectives on Culture and Media
  • Cold War Propaganda
  • Victorian and Medieval Literature

Academic Awards

  • Chancellor's Award, UW-Milwaukee, 2021
  • Pleiades Press Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize for Full-Length Manuscript, 2019
  • Sustainable Arts Foundation Spring Promise Award, 2014
  • Poetry Fellow, Writers’ Room of Boston, 2011
  • Key West Literary Seminar and Writing Workshop Scholarship, 2011
  • English Department Highest Academic Excellence Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008

Biographical Sketch

Interests  Academic Awards  Teaching Experience College Writing and Research, UW Milwaukee (ENG 102) Intro to Creative Writing, UMass-Boston (ENG210) Professional Website www.angelavorashills.com

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