Francine Sterle
http://www.francinesterle.com
Francine Sterle is the author of What Thread? (Red Dragonfly Press, 2015), winner of the David Martinson—Meadowhawk Prize; Nude in Winter (Tupelo Press, 2007); Every Bird is One Bird (Tupelo Press, 2001), winner of the Editor’s Prize; and The White Bridge (Poetry Harbor, 1999). Her poems have appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, the North American Review, Poetry International, and Nimrod, and her poems have been anthologized in Written on Water, Letters to the World, To Sing Along the Way, The Cancer Poetry Project, and 33 Minnesota Poets.
Sterle's awards include ten Pushcart Prize nominations, a Los Angeles Book of the Year nomination, a Loft-McKnight Foundation Award, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award; she has received a Career Initiative Grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council as well as both a Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has served residencies at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary.
Sterle's awards include ten Pushcart Prize nominations, a Los Angeles Book of the Year nomination, a Loft-McKnight Foundation Award, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award; she has received a Career Initiative Grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council as well as both a Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has served residencies at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary.