Ellen Bass was born on June 16,1947 and is an American poet and author.
11 Facts About Ellen Bass
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Ellen Bass has won three Pushcart Prizes and a Lambda Literary Award for her 2002 book Mules of Love.
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Ellen Bass received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014 and was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2017.
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Ellen Bass grew up in Pleasantville, New Jersey, where her parents owned a liquor store.
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From 1970 to 1974, Ellen Bass worked at Project Place, a social service center in Boston.
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Ellen Bass has taught poetry at the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program at Pacific University in Oregon since 2007.
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Ellen Bass has taught workshops in Santa Cruz, California since 1974 and nationally.
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Ellen Bass's poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies, including the New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares.
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In 2017, Ellen Bass was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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Ellen Bass was named the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year in 2019.
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Ellen Bass has two children, Saraswati Bryer-Bass and Max Bryer-Bass.