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{{short description|American poet}}

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'''Arda Collins''' is an Armenian-American [[poet]] and winner of the [[Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition]].

==Life==
Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]], where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the [[University of Denver]], where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.<ref name="yale">[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300148886/it-daylight ''It Is Daylight'', Arda Collins, Yale University Press, Mar 23, 2009]</ref><ref>{{Cite web
| title = Award-winning UI poets Collins and Thirkield read April 14
| accessdate = 2009-05-02
| url = http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/april/040209collins_PL.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110720085911/http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/april/040209collins_PL.html
| archive-date = 2011-07-20
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>

Her book ''It Is Daylight'' was selected by [[Louise Glück]] for the [[Yale Series of Younger Poets]].<ref>{{Cite web
| title = It Is Daylight - Collins, Arda; Glück, Louise - Yale University Press
| accessdate = 2009-05-02
| url = http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300148886
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She has taught at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]], [[New York University]], and at [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University]] in [[Wellington, New Zealand]].<ref>[http://www.readab.com/cal_f2005.html ''Archives Calendar'', Reading Between A&B]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pleaseexcusethispoem.tumblr.com/post/118120738925/q-a-with-arda-collins|title=Q & A with Arda Collins}}</ref> She is currently the [[Grace Hazard Conkling]] Writer in Residence at [[Smith College]]. She lives in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umass.edu/englishmfa/2019-juniper-literary-festival|title = 2019 Juniper Literary Festival : MFA for Poets & Writers : UMass Amherst}}</ref>

Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker'',<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Arda%20Collins%22|title = Search|magazine = [[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> jubilat,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/archive/issue-30/|title=Number 30 - jubilat}}</ref> ''The American Poetry Review'',<ref>{{cite news| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_200411/ai_n9469306/ | work=The American Poetry Review | title=Spring | first=Arda | last=Collins | year=2004}}</ref> ''A Public Space''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.apublicspace.org/back_issues/issue_7/it_is_daylight.html|title = It is Daylight : Magazine : A Public Space}}</ref> and ''Gutcult.''

== Awards ==
* 2008 winner of the [[Yale Series of Younger Poets]] competition.
* 2008 [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]' (AAAS) Poetry Prize
* 2008 May Sarton Prize <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amacad.org/about/sarton.aspx |title=Recipients of the May Sarton Prize |website=www.amacad.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917064735/http://amacad.org/about/sarton.aspx |archive-date=2010-09-17}}</ref>

== Works ==
* ''Star Lake'', New York : The Song Cave, 2022. {{ISBN|9781737277545}}
* ''It is daylight'', New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|9780300148879}}, {{OCLC|637375983}}

==References==
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