Edwina Trentham

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Moodus, CT
Connecticut US

Author's Bio

Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College, where she is also the Editor of Freshwater, a national poetry journal, which celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in May 2009. She has published poetry in a variety of periodicals, including Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, The Connecticut Review, and The American Scholar. Her first collection of poetry, Stumbling into the Light, was published by Antrim House in 2004. She was a featured reader in The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in 2005. She lives in Moodus, with her husband Greg Coleman, a poet, labyrinth designer, and Tai Chi Instructor.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Atomic Ghost (Coffee House Press, 1995)
Book:
Stumbling into the Light (Antrim House, 2004)
Journals:
American Scholar
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American Voice
,
Dickinson Review
,
Embers
,
Harvard Magazine
, ,
New Virginia Review
,
Pivot
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Yankee Magazine
Prizes won: 

Honorable Mention Sunken Garden Poetry Festival National Poetry Contest 2004
The Yeats Society Poetry Award

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert, Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
English American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Hamilton
Bermuda
Raised in: 
Somerset
Bermuda
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Last update: Sep 07, 2017