Hourglass Museum - by Kelli Russell Agodon (Paperback)

About the Book

Car rides with Warhol, tattoos of Kahlo, and dinners with Cornell. A paper museum where inspiration intersects with our lives.

Book Synopsis

Car rides with Warhol, tattoos of Kahlo, and dinners with Cornell. A paper museum where inspiration intersects with our lives.

About the Author

Kelli Russell Agodon: Kelli Russell Agodon was born and raised in Seattle and educated at the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writers Workshop where she received her MFA in creative writing. She is the author of Small Knots (2004) and Geography, winner of the 2003 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award.
Her work has been appeared in literary magazines and anthologies such as the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, Notre Dame Review, North American Review, Image, 5 a.m, Meridian, Crab Orchard Review, Calyx, The Seattle Review, Poets Against the War edited by Sam Hamill, as well as on NPR's "The Writer's Almanac" with Garrison Keillor and in Keillor's second anthology, Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking Press).

Kelli is a recipient of three Washington State Artist Trust GAP grants, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the William Stafford Award, the Carlin Aden Award for formal verse, a Soapstone Writer's Residency, and a grant from the Puffin Foundation for her work towards peace and as a poetry editor for the broadside series: The Making of Peace.

Currently, Kelli lives in a seaside community in the Northwest with her family. She is the co-editor of Seattle's literary journal, Crab Creek Review. Visit her website at: www.agodon.com