Bio
(PhD 1982, Poetry) is the author of the poetry collections Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch (2018), We Almost Disappear (2011), Waltzing through the Endtime (2004), Vagrant Grace (1999), Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems (1995), In a U-Haul North of Damascus (1982), as well as Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (1979) which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He was the poet laureate of Georgia from 2000-2012 and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His other honors include a Levinson Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and an Ingram-Merrill Award.
First Name
David
Last Name
Bottoms
Full Name
David Bottoms
Grad Year
1982