Sidney Wade

Sidney Wade
Born1951 (age 74–75)
Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationsProfessor, Department of English
Years active1993–2016
EmployerUniversity of Florida
AwardsFulbright Fellowship
Academic background
Education
Websitehttp://www.sidneywade.com/

Sidney Wade (born 1951) is an American poet. She held the position of professor of creative writing[1] at the University of Florida, where she taught from 1993 through April 2016.[2]

Early life and education

Wade was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1951. She attended the University of Vermont, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1974 and an M.Ed. in counseling in 1978. She earned a Ph.D in English from the University of Houston in 1994.

Career

Wade has published multiple poetry collections, including Celestial Bodies,[3] Green,[4] From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998), and Empty Sleeves (1990). Istanbul'dan/From Istanbul was published in Turkish and English by Yapi Kredi Publications. Stroke was published by Persea Books,[5] as was Straits and Narrows.[6] Atelier26 Books publisher her 2017 collection, Bird Book,[7] and Johns Hopkins University published her 2020 collection, Deep Gossip.[8]

Her poems have also appeared in The New Republic,[9] The New Yorker,[10] Poetry Magazine, Southern Review,[11] and other publications. She co-translated a selection from the poems of Melih Cevdet Anday together with Efe Murad under the title Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday. The translation received the 2014 Meral Divitçi Prize.[12] Some of these translations also appeared in literary journals such as The American Reader, Asymptote, Five Points, Critical Flame, Denver Quarterly, Guernica,[13] The Kenyon Review[14] Turkish Poetry Today, Poet Lore, and Two Lines.

Wade received a Fulbright Fellowship[1] and was a senior lecturer at Istanbul University from 1989–1990. She was awarded the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1994. Wade was the president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in 2006 and 2007.[15]

She served as the judge for the BkMk Press John Ciardi Prize for Poetry in 2009.[16] Wade also served as faculty for the 26th through 30th Sewanee Writers' Conferences.[a]

Personal life

Wade lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Works

  • Empty Sleeves. University of Georgia Press. 1991. ISBN 978-082031-278-1.
  • From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan. Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Yayinlar. 1998. ISBN 975-363-964-3.
  • Green. University of South Carolina Press. 1998. ISBN 978-157003-267-7.
  • Celestial Bodies. Louisiana State University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-080712-824-4.
  • Stroke. New York: Persea Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-89255-337-2. LCCN 2007038375.
  • Straits & Narrows. New York: Persea Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-89255-425-6.
  • Bird Book. Atelier26 Books. 2017. ISBN 978-0-99765-233-8.
  • Deep Gossip. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2020. ISBN 978-142143-788-0.

Translations

  • Anday, Melih Cevdet (2017). Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday. Translated by Efe Murad; Sidney Wade. Northfield: Talisman. ISBN 978-1-58498-125-1.
  • Yemenici, Elif (2022). Pina. Translated by Sidney Wade. Tilbury House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88448-948-1.

Notes

  1. ↑ 26th;[17] 27th;[18] 28th;[19] 29th;[20] 30th[21]

References

Sources

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